Chelsea manager, Mauricio Pochettino has come out to respond to claims that his team played too many long balls against Luton Town. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he does not see anything wrong with his team going long during a match instead of passing out from the back, so he does not understand the criticisms that have come his way because of it.

Poch added that his players will always try to play cleverly to overcome any opponent in front of them.
His words, “That’s not football? Not really, I didn’t see it like this. But okay, I respect your view about the game. We played, maybe, more long passes than short ones but I think we always try to play cleverly and try to break the pressure of Luton but, in my view, we were combining our game, trying to mix long-distance passes with shorter passes.”
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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.
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