Last summer market Kalidou Koulibaly Arrived at Chelsea to strengthen the defensive saga after the departure of Christensen and Rüdiguer. Despite Naples As one of the best central defenders in the world, he has struggled to adapt to English football, and much is expected of him.
Tomorrow at 9:00 pm, the ‘blues’ will visit the Santiago Bernabéu to play the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Champions League. In the last edition, also in the quarterfinals, four goals from Karim Benzema they liquidated the London team and took the meringues to the semis, a few weeks later, to win the fourteenth.
At that time, the African defender was not yet in the ranks of the ‘blue’ group, and he did not have to suffer from the French striker. However, he wanted to talk about her, saying that “He is the best striker in the world. It will be a tough match but I hope Chelsea win and pass this test.” It’s difficult because they won the last Champions League. We believe in ourselves, our teammates and the coach. I hope he continues to score, but not on Wednesday.”
Frank Lampard recently became the interim coach of Chelsea after the dismissal of Graham Potter from the London bench. Koulibaly He was lucky to be technically ‘blue’. “He is a good coach, a good person and he helped me a lot.. I had difficult moments when I came here, and he and the staff helped me a lot. I feel sorry for him, but it’s part of the job.”
Regarding his new coach, he maintains that “we know he’s a legend here and he’s trained half the team. We’re all focused on Chelsea and Frank Lampard. Our first goal is to win games and make our fans happy.”.
Like many Muslim players, Koulibaly He practices during Ramadan. The African was surprised that the matches stopped so that the players carrying out the tradition could recharge their batteries. “When you go here and see that they can stop the games for Muslims to recharge, have a few drinks and recharge a bit, it’s amazing. This has never happened to me, so this feeling is incredible.”
Last week, the forward of Inter, stupidwas sent off for putting his finger to his lips in front of the home fans after scoring a penalty in the 95th minute. All this is due in part to the fans of Juventus he dedicated some racist chants to her.
Koulibaly came to his defense, saying “I don’t know why this keeps happening. Some people are fools who think they can do whatever they want. Society is not like that and I say to Romelu, I am with him. I know this feeling, it happened to me and it was really bad. We have to be proud of him, proud of what he did.”
Source: La Verdad
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