Pochettino on Chelsea's 1-1 draw at City
Pochettino on Chelsea's 1-1 draw at City
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00:00 How pleased are you with that performance given what's happened in some other big away
00:25 games this season? You're playing, as you said, the best team in the world today.
00:30 No, I think so pleased, but I need to tell you and to everyone that the penalty against
00:36 Gallagher against Liverpool, I think, changed completely the game. But now you are using
00:43 some games away from home, again the big team to say yes. But of course, today, great performance,
00:51 Liverpool scored first. I think the first half was a very good game. So pleased, I think,
00:59 I told the players. I feel so pleased and congratulate them because I think the effort
01:03 was massive. The spirit that we showed today, I think, is in the way that we want to compete
01:09 and compete in this way for sure. With the talent that we have growing in all the areas,
01:13 I think we will reach one day the level that we expect. But yes, of course, so pleased
01:20 because to face a team or to play against a team that is the best in the world, never
01:24 easy. And today, I think the character that I show and the personality of the player and
01:30 the team make me very, very happy.
01:34 You had a very clear sort of counter-attacking approach today which created a lot of chances.
01:43 If you'd taken more of those chances, you might have won. Can you just tell us how you
01:49 organised the team and how you set up to play this game?
01:56 I will invite you to the training ground and show how we prepared because it's difficult
02:00 to explain now in a few words or in a few sentences in the way that we prepared the
02:05 game. I think that is a job during the week, but that is not my or our capacity to prepare
02:16 the game. It's about the player to deliver in the shop. I think they show character today.
02:21 I think we try to prepare like all the coaches and coaching staff to prepare and to make
02:27 the plan of the game. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But I think always
02:31 the player is a football game that belongs to the players and today the execution and
02:38 of course the performance was from them.
02:41 We know very well Manchester City how to play, more here than at Etihad. I think it's important
02:47 to sustain their capacity to dominate and to force you to go deep. Of course you are
02:53 not brave enough after when you have the ball and you force them to run back and to make
02:59 the effort. It's going to be like in the second half, it's a period that you cannot leave
03:03 your box or your own half. I think today for us it was a really important game to give
03:12 the momentum, to realise that we are in a good way improving. Still we are not on the
03:18 level of Manchester City, but that is our aim. Of course we are a very young team that
03:26 needs to leave this type of games to improve and to create the spirit that we need to show
03:34 in every single game. We want to be competitive because we were, I think from the beginning,
03:38 one of the best teams in the way to perform and to create chances. After 15 games in the
03:48 Premier League I think we were or we deserve to be in the top four. But football is not
03:52 only to show good quality and be nice, it's about to be competitive. Today I think the
03:58 team is starting to show that we can be competitive also and play well.
04:01 You talk about character and mentality, did we see that from Raheem Sterling today, being
04:10 able to come to this stadium and score and also he missed a few chances so there was
04:14 pressure to put one away?
04:16 Of course, I think it's important his experience and of course an offensive player always needs
04:24 to score and feel confident. Then he was working really hard for the team, he defended well,
04:30 he was always in the position to help the team when needed to make the effort, being
04:36 in a position to help the defensive line, to chill well on the side. I think, yes, so
04:42 important performance, so happy and I think helping to achieve a good point for us, a
04:50 good performance for us.
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