Sarri transcription: every word of Chelsea's boss about his players, the form of Hazard and the physical form of Higuain

What is your relationship with your players after the locker room has locked and does not come back to the coach?

"I did not attack the players, I talked to them because I needed to understand, and then I went home immediately because I wanted to see the game again. other reason. "

But you criticized them after the press conference?

"No, because I said that probably I'm not able to motivate them.I said it.But if we have mental problems, I think the reason could be the players, the technical staff, the club … but I can not think of the club.

"I have to think about the players and the staff, we are probably doing something wrong, the staff first, the coach first, so I said that probably I do not I might say that it's probably very difficult to motivate them, but I have to find a way, of course. "

Your job is not to motivate players?

"It's part of my job, of course, but I want to change the mindset first and foremost, so it's a very long way."

How are you doing that?

"I think my football is a cooperative affair, so I have to talk to my players and get them involved in my football, more than what we're doing right now, we now have the mentality to make the match, but we have to improve ourselves. We have to improve the offensive phase, because we have a lot of individual players, so it's not easy to change in four or five months, for example, in the last match, I think we built very well. action in the first half.

"Then we were able to close spaces ourselves because we were too tight with the three offensive players, so the defenders were easy to defend, and sometimes we have to stay very tall and wide. 39, interior to receive, need to improve.I have to completely change the mindset because they had the habit of playing on counterattacks to be able to drive the ball.We must now change.It is a long way, but I'm trying to change the mindset.

"I want to be in control of the match, I want to score, and have the right reaction if we concede a goal.We only have to play.We controlled the match for 45 minutes, but we conceded after only two minutes in the second half, we only have to play to start and replay. "

Do you have a plan B?

"Why?" First of all, I want to do very well Plan A. I do not want to change some things that, for the moment, do not work very well.First, I want to see my football very played well Then we can go change something. "

So are you going to stay with Plan A?

"Of course, because everyone, 10 years ago, knew Barcelona very well, and Barcelona won everything because they played their football very well." So, first of all, I want to to play my football very well and then I can change. "

How long will it take?

"I want to remind you that in the first season, Tottenham and Liverpool were in the middle of the table, the situation in England is very clear, three teams are on top of each other. coach arrived five years ago, four years ago and the other three years, so the situation is very clear.

"English football is in the hands of these teams, they had a plan and were really patient, so we need to change their minds and move forward, the situation for me is really clear."

Have you had any insurance from the club?

"It does not bother me because I'm a dreamer, I want to play football, but if I came here starting with a professional team, it's because I'm a dreamer."

Could Kante play the role of Jorginho?

"Only 20 minutes if I have to defend a result."

How do you think Jorginho's adapted?

"It depends on what you want from Jorginho If Jorginho wants the last pbad, he did not fit in. Jorginho is very capable of moving the ball, build the action, but Jorginho usually plays to 40-45m from the goal It is therefore impossible for him to make the last pbad Jorginho is very good for another job. "

Is this job harder than you thought?

"Probably yes, but I knew very well that it would be very difficult, very difficult because here the level is very high.It is very difficult because this team played another football.

"It's very difficult because this team won with another ball, so it's really very difficult, but we can do it, I think, we can improve, we can change minds, we can we can play our football, it's not easy. "

Why are you so confident that this will happen?

"Because, every day, I see the training and, in the training, they improve.We lost very badly the last match, but the last match was different: we lost confidence after the goal.But in the beginning, we entered the We made mistakes with the reaction, not with the approach.

"The approach was very good because we wanted to control the match immediately, now we have some problems to score and we are working on it, of course.I had said, before, the reason in my opinion. played with four or five players who turn their backs on the goal, we must go to not stay.

"We have to go to get the ball on the run, without getting it back to the goal, so we have to improve that, but it's not a big problem, only a tactical problem." can talk to my players about tactical problems, I do not like talking to them about mental problems. "

Is Hazard giving you enough?

"I think he's changing, he used to play as an individual player, he now has to play in a special way, and it's not easy for him to play. because he has become Hazard by playing in another way, so I think very well that it is not easy, but I can see that now he is no longer available to play this way. must improve, of course.

"It's normal.It's fantastic from the technical point of view, and I think it can do more tactically." At the moment, our striker is not the easy task in this team. you know very well … we have a lot of individual players like Hazard, Willian and Pedro, so it's not easy for the striker to do the right thing at the right time, so we need to improve. match, if we had scored before our opponents, the match were really different. "

What would your message be to Chelsea fans right now?

"As I said at the press conference after the match, we have to apologize to them first because the result was a disaster, I can understand them very well. to be patient with us right now because we are trying to do something big, it is not easy, we have to work, we have to improve, we have to lose matches … but we try to do our best. "

What is the health status of Higuain?

"At the moment, he is not at the top, physically, and in the last 45 days he has only played a few games, not only for his back, but also for his involvement in the market.

"So he has to improve because he is able to accelerate more than now, and then I think he is able to physically improve, he can be of immediate benefit to us."

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