For those hoping that Chelsea might, at last, be about to face some serious Conference League competition, it was reassuring to hear that Real Betis have had this date inked in the diary with similar certainty.
“I sent Enzo [Maresca] a message when we started in the group stage,” Betis manager Manuel Pellegrini said here in Wroclaw on Tuesday. “It was a very short message that said: ‘I’ll see you in the final’.”
