Chelsea Were Poor Without The Ball Vs Burnley – Pochettino

Chelsea manager, Mauricio Pochettino has come out to criticize his team after they drew 2-2 with 10-man relegation candidates, Burnley at Stamford Bridge. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he is so disappointed with the final result because his players didn’t show the consistency and capacity to manage the game.

Poch added that he was not happy with the performance of his players when they did not have the ball.

His words, “So disappointed. We didn’t show the consistency and the capacity to deal with and manage the game. We allowed them some actions from set pieces to get some possibility to believe.

It is a result that shows that we need to improve in many areas if we want to be competitive. It was so easy for them to get to our last third. We were not aggressive enough in open play and defending set pieces. We need to improve like a team and be more competitive.

We are a team that when we go forward we create too many chances but don’t score all of the chances we create. We didn’t show the capacity, the energy, the hunger, the minimum to compete in the Premier League. That is why I am so upset and disappointed. It’s more here [heart] and here [head] than in your legs.

I’m sorry but I am not happy with the performance when we don’t have the ball. We need to be strong also against a very physical team. We allowed them to run too much. Sorry for my speech but it’s difficult to accept not to win the game because it was a must-win game. We need to accept that and recover from the situation.”

WOW.

Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.

The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.

On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.

The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.