Angry at Chelsea

The excitement and tactical excitement generated by the desire to win is so much fun in football. When they get together, crazy games happen like on Saturday between Chelsea and the Manchester City, a close and passionate match, pushed to the limit by both teams under heavy rain. There is no better advertising poster for Premier League than in a match like this, all the virtues of English football are played when the unleashed vocation of scoring goals dominates the effort to avoid them.

There will be, from now on, a spirit of Stamford Bridge, which will be remembered for the unrelenting nature of the ‘blues’ and the energy of the two forwards, in a match without control, full of alternatives, verticality, waste and arrogance. A very good day of football, ending in a rare 4-4, led the coach of city, Pep Guardiola to blurt out a spontaneous “nato ka ka ba?”, when at the end of the game he was asked about the strange score, which he had never experienced before in his career as a coach. The mistakes of a city mess led him to lose two points and narrow the classification.

This is not the type of confrontation that many coaches like, who lean towards control tactics. But the one who proposed Chelsea of Pochettino, who demanded more courage and intensity from his players. Gradually, overcoming internal problems and betting on unbalanced players in their dribbling, the ‘blues’ of the southwest London They are once again giving signs of what they are capable of, with their quick and fast style. In addition to confirming his recovery, the Chelsea showed the necessary drive to recover from each blow and goal of citynever give up under any circumstances.

Dark work always pays off. And one of the Pochettino in all areas of the club’s training ground at Cobham is obvious, watching his players fight. Tough and charismatic at the same time, he was able to motivate them and recharge their positive mentality to take advantage of the virtues of their forwards, very effective this time, because they were encouraged by the bold approach of Guardiola. Due to excessive ambition and imbalances in the field, the city He was unable to maintain the three lead on the scoreboard.

Even if there is none Nkunkutheir big signing, who is still injured, the one Chelsea He begins to reconnect and like each other, and he also faces the meeting with old grudges, like two former players of the leader and champion, Raheem Sterling and Cole Palmer, key to his responsiveness and key to his play at the extreme. Both want to show the Catalan coach city that perhaps he made a mistake in not giving them more prominence and letting them know.

There is no denying the Chelsea is going in the right direction and has time to return to the top, because it was not defeated by Arsenal and Liverpool. Their challenge will be to maintain the same energy against lesser teams waiting to be locked in the back. Now the ‘blues’, fueled by this renewed fury, must take that step further when they face those rivals who have left no space or field to run.