🔹Mauricio Pochettino on today’s loss: “That’s football. Teams like us, we need to get the right balance. I think today there were a few actions we didn’t manage well and we concede. We create many chances and we did well in the first half. We should have won the game with our first half. In the second half with another isolated action we concede again. To find the space to create clear chances [is difficult] but overall it is this type of game that is difficult to explain. In the second half with another isolated action we concede again. To find the space to create clear chances [is difficult] but overall it is this type of game that is difficult to explain.”
🔹Mauricio Pochettino on the missed penalty: “It was the frustration when we miss the penalty. We were playing well and we didn’t get the reward. We start the second half a little bit with this belief until we started again to play. Also the injury to Carney Chukwuemeka changed a little bit the shape of the team. Then we start again to dominate the game but again we concede. We need to be more strong in this type of situation because we knew West Ham sit deep and counter-attack and set-pieces are really dangerous.”
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🔹Mauricio Pochettino on today’s game: “Disappointed but this is only the beginning. We need to believe in the process. I think we are going to be stronger and for sure be really competitive.”
🔹Mauricio Pochettino on Carney Chukwuemeka’s injury: “Now we need to assess him, tomorrow. See what happened with his knee. It was really bad luck.”
Mauricio Pochettino on the loss: “I don’t believe we can say it’s mentality. In football we need to accept that the situation happened. The first-half was really good.”
🔹Mauricio Pochettino on West Ham’s opener: “I’m disappointed and the players are really disappointed about how we conceded the first goal. We know how dangerous West Ham are from set-pieces.”
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🔹Mauricio Pochettino on Moises Caicedo’s debut: “When we took the decision to play with him for the last 30 minutes, it’s because he’s ready to play. He did well, very positive things. You cannot say it was massively wrong. He will be disappointed. We are all disappointed because I think we deserved more.”
🔹Mauricio Pochettino on his young side: “If we had scored the penalty, we go to half-time with 2-1. We would be talking about a different game, a different situation.”
🔹Mauricio Pochettino on not reaching the performance levels of the first half after the interval: “At half-time, we were upset about the start of the game. We conceded a few situations and we were aware of that.”
🔹Mauricio Pochettino on Chelsea’s goal scoring problem: “This is a new team, new players. I think it’s a lot to believe, players like Nico Jackson, he is for sure going to score because he has amazing quality. I don’t believe that happened because of what happened last season.”
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🔹Mauricio Pochettino on Carney Chukwuemeka’s injury: “We will see tomorrow. Being assessed by the doctor.”
🔹Mauricio Pochettino on the suggestion psychological issues are affecting the Chelsea squad: “No. I don’t see nothing like this, for sure.”
🔹Mauricio Pochettino on Raheem Sterling: “We were talking a lot this week in my office. He’s a player that can deliver. Today he was fantastic. For sure, he’s not happy because we didn’t win. But this is the way we expect the players to perform.”
