Maurizio Sarri accuses Chelsea players of being difficult to motivate after defeat against Arsenal | Football News

Sarri: "I'm not happy at all because I prefer to come to the press room and locker room to talk about tactics and why we lost strategy."

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Maurizio Sarri launched a fierce attack on his players after Chelsea's defeat against Arsenal, accusing them of not fighting before suggesting that they are a difficult group to motivate.

Maurizio Sarri accused his Chelsea players of being "difficult to motivate" after his team's 2-0 defeat at Arsenal.

Chelsea made a dull performance at the Emirates Stadium, while goals from Alexandre Lacazette and Laurent Koscielny reduced the gap to the fourth, three point, bringing back the hopes of qualifying. Arsenal for the Champions League.

After the defeat, Sarri, who spoke in Italian, again criticized the mentality of his players.

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"Today, I prefer to speak Italian first because I want to send a message to my players and I want my message to be very clear," said the Chelsea head coach. "I do not want to be wrong with English.

"I must say that I am extremely angry, really very angry, because this defeat was due to our mentality more than anything else.

Sarri accused his players of being difficult to motivate

"We have faced a mentally stronger team than we are, and that's something I can not accept.

"We had a similar problem in the championship game in Tottenham, we talked a lot about this defeat and our approach at the time." I spoke to the players, I thought we had managed to overcome the problem.

"It seems to me that they have a problem of determination and mental toughness I am not at all happy because I prefer to enter the press room and the locker room to talk about the tactics and the lost reason. from the point of view of strategy, but the fact is that it seems that this group of players is extremely difficult to motivate. "

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Sarri said that Arsenal was more determined to win than his team and that he was refusing to blame the tactics for the loss, leaving them only three points ahead of Arsenal and Manchester United in fourth position.

"I think when we see this kind of match in which one team is obviously more determined than the other, we can not really talk about tactics," he said.

"From a technical point of view, the two teams are pretty much the same, but as I said, they were more determined than us, so the tactics were not even taken into account.

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"It seems to me that their high level of determination was really obvious throughout the match, especially in the two penalty areas, if you think about how clinical they were when they scored their goal. were in defense as determined.

"We were not strong enough in defense, especially with the first goal we conceded, we could have lost this game anyway, we could have lost it for tactical or technical reasons, but I think we lost it because of our determination I could not I might not say I'm not responsible either, partly, I think it's something we have to share . "

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Sarri is now looking for answers as he tries to improve the mentality of his team and think that the arrival of a new player could help.

Sky in Italy announced that Gonzalo Higuain, loaned by Juventus to AC Milan, had agreed to settle at Stamford Bridge until the end of the season, when they would then have the opportunity to buy the Argentine striker. .

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"It seems to me that as a group of players, they are not particularly aggressive from a mental point of view," he said. "They do not have ferocity in their mentality.

"It's something that depends on the kind of players they're in, their characteristics – it's something that's hard to change – you have to try to influence their mentality." Is something that could take enough time.

"In the same way, this could be changed by the arrival of a new player, or perhaps by one of the former leaders of the team who would badume responsibility and move forward the rest of the team. "

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