Maurizio Sarri says Chelsea played his football during the victory at Malmo | Football News

Chelsea won Sweden 2-1 in the last first leg of the Europa League 32

Maurizio Sarri, manager of Chelsea, in the Malmo v Chelsea case

Maurizio Sarri said Chelsea "played football" as he won his first away win in 2019 with a 2-1 win in the Europa League 2 in the first leg in Malmo.

Sarri wanted a reaction from his side after being beaten 6-0 by Manchester City in the Premier League on Sunday and said that the previous weeks Chelsea "did not play his football", hinting that his style of play was neither listened to or used. effectively

The result gives Chelsea a lead in the first leg of the last 32 games – with the return leg next Thursday at Stamford Bridge – and Sarri was overall pleased with the work of the evening.

He said: "Today, we played football, we have to move the ball more forward and back, and in the last period we had a problem from top to bottom – 4-0, 5-0, 6-0 – we needed to have continuity and consistency.

"We have to have the right application If you have a bad mental application in England, you can lose three or four matches, we have to have consistency, it is not easy, but we have to try.

Ross Barkley and Olivier Giroud scored the goals of the draw against the Europa League

"I'm happy because we played with a good level of confidence, it was not easy after the last game, we played inside our field, we played very well. We risked only on stopped plays We could score more, I think, but we conceded a goal on an error.

"The level of application was good, we made a hardware mistake, I think we could win better, we had three chances out of four, we could kill the game, it was not easy. To have that confidence. "

Chelsea won their first away game in 2019 in Sweden

Malmo is in the knockout stages of the Europa League for the first time and there was a festive atmosphere at Swedbank Stadion, which Sarri compared to his former club, Napoli.

He added: "The atmosphere was like in Naples, they are usually 50 000. It was wonderful, it's a physical team and you have to get the qualification.

"We have to play and they are very compact, they did not surprise us, I knew them well, I saw their matches in the Europa League and their pre-season."

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