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Asked if kepa not starting against Tottenham at Stamford bridge would be a punishment or tactical decision
sarri said:"it would be a decision for the [good of the]group.for all the players.
he[kepa]has to be [mentally ready to play].he made a mistake. a big mistake.
there are some consequences,if the consequence is to play,he has to be ready to play if the consequence is on the bench, then he has to be ready to go to the bench"

if[ he will play] maybe yes maybe not. "he made,a really big mistake. for me it's finished".
"i spoke with kepa .then we spoke all together,because he said sorry to the technical staff ,but it was not enough."
"then he said sorry to his team-mates,to the club.I think he made a big mistake but we have to be[bigger].we don't want to kill him



-Maurizio sarri

this kepa story just eclipse everything

It was a misunderstanding - Sarri
Chelsea
Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri says that extraordinary stand-off with keeper
Kepa Arrizabalaga was a "misunderstanding".
Sarri also says the Spaniard will not be disciplined by the club.
"I misunderstood the problem and only realised the situation when the doctor arrived at the bench.
"It was a big misunderstanding because I understood the keeper had cramp and was unable to go to the penalties. But it was not cramp and could go to the penalties."
On why he walked off towards the tunnel: "I needed to return to be quiet. He [Kepa] understood that I asked for a change for his physical problem and he said I haven't a physical problem. And he was right.
"I realised after when the doctor arrived. I have talked to him [Kepa] but only to clarify because now I have understand the situation."

I've still got authority - Sarri
Chelsea
Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri says his future at Stamford Bridge is "the same" as it was before the match.
The Italian insists he still has the backing of the players and retains authority in the dressing room.
"After this match I have to say that I'm sure of that because they played exactly what I asked. Today I am proud of the players," he said.
Does this incident put his future under more doubt? "You have to ask the club. Here I am very happy and in the last three matches we are improving and have improved a lot.
"Today showed everyone we could be a very solid team because we conceded nothing to the opponents and to Manchester City that is not easy. I am happy with my players.
"I think the club would be proud of that performance too, because the performance was very good against, in my opinion, the best club in Europe


this is what our coach has to say

to bad we're going to end this season trophyless






it won't be well with sarri if he ever plays that kepa in goal...

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RLC;(

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kante is really turning up

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'We played confusing football'
Chelsea 0-2 Man Utd
Chelsea
Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri speaking to BBC Sport: "Tonight we were unlucky because we played a very good first half and at the end of the half the score was 2-0. We gave them a few opportunities. We played confusing football in the second half. After the first half it wasn't easy to play with that score. We played very good first half.
"I feel the pressure for results of course, not about something else.
"We have to work, we have to speak, we have to find more aggression and determination in both boxes."

this is what our coach had to say

"Chelsea are a good team, they have their way of playing but Juan Mata did a fantastic job on Jorginho and we were absolutely perfect defensively. We kept a clean sheet

-OGS



chaiii

'You're getting sacked in the morning' rings out from the stands. Could be United fans, could be Chelsea. I couldn't tell

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Sarri: Kovacic ready to step up and be Jorginho's Chelsea understudy
18 hours ago / autty
The Blues manager is looking at options within his squad to deputise for the former Napoli man after the club failed to sign a midfielder in January


Maurizio Sarri is retraining Mateo Kovacic to play the role of Jorginho’s back-up after Chelsea failed to sign a replacement for Cesc Fabregas.

Fabregas joined Monaco in the January transfer window, but Chelsea were unsuccessful in their attempts to sign former Zenit man Leandro Paredes, who ended up joining Paris Saint-Germain instead .

Sarri has been left looking for options to find a new deputy to his vital cog in the ‘Sarriball’ machine. Ethan Ampadu and Kovacic were both trialled in the role in Chelsea's FA Cup win against Sheffield Wednesday.

Chelsea boss Sarri thinks that Kovacic is now capable of playing in that role after he came on in Saturday’s 5-0 thrashing of Huddersfield to replace Jorginho, who was substituted due to a minor groin problem.

"I don't know [if we will suffer for not signing a midfielder] but I have to try with our own players," Sarri told reporters at Stamford Bridge. "So, I think Kovacic could be a very good option. A very good option, then we need to recover completely Loftus-Cheek, after his back problem.

"Then, we can play sometimes with Kovacic as a central midfielder and then Jorginho will be able to rest. We are trying in training with two players; the first is Ampadu and the second is Kovacic. It may be that for the characteristics, Kovacic is more suitable for this team.

"As you know, Ampadu is more defensive. Kovacic is really close to Jorginho in moving the ball really fast at one-touch. In the future, I think he will be able to do this position well."

Sarri's tactical inflexibility has been the source of much criticism in a week when Chelsea lost 4-0 to Bournemouth, who utilised David Brooks to mark Jorginho in the club's worst defeat for 22 years.

However, Sarri was defiant when questioned about his lack of plan B and the predictability of his line-ups, in which Jorginho takes a central role. Sarri also defended Jorginho, who he believes is misunderstood, as the Premier League's leading pass maker is still to register an assist this season.

He came close on several occasions as he lined up alongside his former Napoli team-mate Gonzalo Higuain against Huddersfield and Sarri thinks Jorginho played much better against the bottom-of-the-table side, explaining what it takes to get the best out of his first signing.

"No, Jorginho played very well," Sarri added of his £57 million man. "I put Kante on the pitch after the fourth goal because Jorginho had a little problem with his groin. This was the only reason because, in my opinion, Jorginho had a good match.


"Jorginho needs movement without the ball from the other players, because he is used to playing one-touch and it is very difficult to play one-touch without the movement of the other players.

"So, if the team, like in the first 20-25 minutes, played very well with movements without the ball, then for Jorginho it is easier, I think. In the first 25 minutes we played our football because we moved the ball very fast and very well.

"There was good movement without the ball. We were really very dangerous. We didn't play with our backs to the opposing goal like in the last match, with five players doing it in the last match. We attacked the spaces and so I think that we played our football.”

Chelsea are now aiming to put a run of results together after the morale-boosting hammering of the Terriers, although February will be a tough month for the Blues with two matches against Manchester City to come, as well as games against Manchester United and Tottenham.

The undermining factor in Chelsea's efforts to comfortably secure a top-four place has been consistency, as they mix high-profile wins with embarrassing defeats. Sarri admits that he has never managed a team of players who can be so good one week, and then so badly off the pace the next.

"Not in the past [have I managed a team that's so inconsistent]," he concluded. "But my target is to improve the mentality, because if we improve the mentality I think it will be easier to arrive into every match with the right level of application and determination.

"It is not easy, of course, and it is a long way, but we need to try to improve in mentality. In every training, in every match, but we need to improve."

great win for us today but can Chelsea be this consitent...?


Sarri said: "Today is all positive, we played a full 90 minutes, defended very well, so it was a very good match but we need consistency now, we have to continue to play with the same mentality in all the matches.
"I hope in the future we will not need to lose a match to find the right mentality.

I agree with him on this >:

popizaino:
Which kind mumu patience should we give you?what did you achieve with Napoli that gave you so much space and time ?Even if we excuse you for trophies,what excuse do you have for not appearing in quarter finals of ucl talk more of semi finals?you don’t even know what Europa league finals look like something a lowly Fulham was made and yet you think we should give you more time


Any Chelsea fan that thinks we should give this man time must be deluded

and he says he has no plan to tweak his formation or tactics


can you imagine

Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri says patience will be needed if his vision for the club is to be fulfilled.
Sarri's side lost 4-0 at Bournemouth on Wednesday, less than two weeks after he called his players hard to motivate following a defeat at Arsenal.
The Italian said Premier League rivals Manchester City, Liverpool and Spurs offered a template for success.
"English football is in the hands of these teams because they had a plan and they were patient," he said.
"In one the coach arrived five years ago, in another three years ago and in the other two years ago.
"I want to remember that in the first season [Jurgen] Klopp and Liverpool were in the middle of the table. I am a dreamer; I want to play my football."
'I must involve players more'
The defeat at Bournemouth, which saw Chelsea drop out of the top four, was their worst league result in 22 years and led to a reportedly "angry" dressing room debrief between the former Napoli manager and his players.
It led to calls in some quarters for Sarri - in his first season at Chelsea - to adjust his favoured 4-3-3 system.
"Why? First of all, I want to do very well the plan A, I think," said Sarri. "I don't want to change something that, at the moment, doesn't work very well.
"First of all, I want to see my football played very well, then we can go to change something.
"Everybody 10 years ago knew Barcelona very well, but Barcelona still won everything because they played their football very well."
He said the Stamford Bridge job was "probably" more difficult than he anticipated and that it was hard to change the "mentality" of players who played a different style of football, and won trophies, under his predecessor Antonio Conte.
"I think my football is cooperation, so I have to speak to my players," said Sarri. "I have to involve them in my football, more than we are doing at the moment.
"Probably we are doing something wrong, the staff and coach first of all. Probably I am not able to motivate them. I have to find the way.
"It's a part of my job, of course. But I want first of all to change the mentality, so it's a very long way."
Chelsea host bottom team Huddersfield in the Premier League on Saturday and have an EFL Cup final against Manchester City on 24 February.



this coach is not ok

Maurizio Sarri questioned his ability to motivate Chelsea's spluttering stars after their humiliating 4-0 defeat at Bournemouth on Wednesday.
The shocking result at Dean Court ranked as Chelsea's biggest league defeat for 22 years and was their fifth loss in the last 12 Premier League games.
The Blues have dropped out of the top four – below Arsenal on goals scored – to leave their bid to qualify for the Champions League under severe threat.
And Chelsea boss Sarri, who publicly questioned his side's approach after the recent defeat at Arsenal, conducted a lengthy post-match inquest alone with his players after asking his backroom staff to leave the dressing room.
The Italian maintained he does not feel under pressure but admitted the blame for the defeat could lie with himself.
"In that moment I wanted to talk with them alone, without anybody else," he said.
"I needed to understand. It's impossible to play in such a different way between the first and second half.
"I don't understand why. I don't know exactly. I want to try again tomorrow because we want to solve the problem.
"I think (the players are good enough). Maybe we are not at the top of the Premier League at the moment, but we are competitive.
"We cannot lose 4-0 against Bournemouth. I want to respect Bournemouth, but it's impossible to lose 4-0 here.
"Maybe it's my fault, maybe I'm not able to motivate them. But the team is very strong, it is also able to win without the coach."
Sarri is facing growing questions about his tactics and motivational ability just half-way through his first season in charge.
And the former Napoli boss admitted he is starting to get annoyed by Chelsea's inconsistency.
"I feel frustrated. Not under pressure. I didn't see the signal of my work. So I am frustrated," he said.
Chelsea dominated long periods of the first half but after conceding Joshua King's opening goal in the 47th minute, they had no response as David Brooks doubled the lead in the 63rd minute.


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dubylhover:
Leave cigar, leave cigar, Sarri no go hear, until e use am Bourn E Mouth *4* nothing

(4-0)

lmao

we don't suffer

we Chelsea fans are impatient sha shebi klopp finished 8th in his first season

Lana1:
Unlike u i dey always wait make match finish before i begin run my mouth unnecessarily. Go and sleep

when did chelsea lose to wolves at home

just read that Sean dyche has never lost on a Tuesday

LoRdCaT:
Same way it was supposed to be hard for Ole to win his first 8 games incharge. Well, here we are! And he made it look so easy too.. You should actually be very scared.

oga Lordcat Chelsea fear no one at Stamford bridge;+();(

odizeey:
nothing good comes easy bro

alryt then may the better team win

madrid5:
see this one,for your mind champions league na dash abi,quadruple ke

lol ...

"when asked the question guardiola said winning a quadruple would be a fantasy we've won the community shield ,were in a cup final were in the fa cup next round and the a facing a mid table schalke "

elrony:
Hope you know you're playing Kuvukiland Oestrogen before facing us?

lmao

odizeey:
na man utd dey play no be me.
PSG get ballers we get ballers. May the better team win.

u ryt but it gonna be really hard for u guys to win back to back

Unlimited22:
Yep.

cool coz united are facing a lot PSG before then