The Chelsea coach says that such big sacks sometimes happen, he himself experienced something similar as a player on Maradona’s or Ronaldinho’s side.
Chelsea suffered a 5-0 defeat at home to Arsenal, the Blues’ heaviest defeat against a London opponent since March 1986.
The match Leandro Trossard opened the scoring in the fourth minute, and after the turn, the home side scored Ben White and the doubler Kai Havertz three more goals were scored in 12 minutes, and in the end the final result was set by White, who also scored two goals.
At halftime, we talked about how it should not happen that we start a match so badly. But we started the second half in vain again. We conceded two goals in a matter of minutes, and at that moment the team gave up the game
he said after the defeat Mauricio Pochettino, coach of Chelsea.
He also added that, despite the ugly jacket, he did not question the character of his players.
“As a player, I experienced a similar situation together with routine, big names like Ronaldinho, Diego Maradona obsession Gabriel Batistuta. At a certain stage of the season, there can be a case like this, and then you say to yourself, these guys were at the top, but now they gave up. Either because of the opponent, or because nothing went right for the team that day, and they couldn’t find anything positive to hold on to. We fought fantastically in the cup match against Manchester City at the weekend, and three days later there was no sign of that,” explained Pochettino.
Chelsea have lost a third of their league titles (11 games in 32 rounds) and are only 9th in the table with 47 points.
Arsenal expects to continue from the top, although in terms of points lost, defending champion Manchester City is in a better position.
Premier League, replacement of matches postponed from the 29th round:
Arsenal-Chelsea 5-0 (1-0)
Wednesday:
Wolverhampton – Bournemouth 20.45
Crystal Palace – Newcastle United 21.00
Everton – Liverpool FC 21.00
Manchester United – Sheffield United 21.00
Thursday:
Brighton – Manchester City 21.00
The table:
1. Arsenal 34 82-26 77 points
2. Liverpool FC 33 75-32 74
3. Manchester City 32 76-32 73
4. Aston Villa 34 71-50 66
5. Tottenham Hotspur 32 65-49 60
6. Newcastle United 32 69-52 50
7. Manchester United 32 47-48 50
8. West Ham United 34 54-63 48
9. Chelsea 32 61-57 47
10. Brighton 32 52-50 44
11. Wolverhampton 33 46-53 43
12. Fulham 34 50-54 42
13. Bournemouth 33 48-60 42
14. Crystal Palace 33 42-56 36
15. Brentford 34 52-59 35
16. Everton 33 34-48 30
17. Nottingham Forest 34 42-60 26
18. Luton Town 34 47-75 25
19. Burnley 34 37-69 23
20. Sheffield United 33 31-88 16
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