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Maurizio Sarri compared Saturday's loss against Arsenal to the setback we suffered in another away derby against a North London team, the November championship match against Tottenham.
This match finished 3-1 to our opponents. Against the Gunners, the result was 2-0 with Chelsea rarely seek to draw a goal back. The closest we met was a Marcos Alonso's head against the woodwork of a glued piece.
By choosing to speak in Italian at the post-match press conference, in order to make sure that he was sending a specific message to his players, Sarri clearly knew what the main problem was with the performance: attitude and lack of determination …
"I am extremely angry," he said. "Very angry because this defeat was due to our mentality more than anything else, to our mental approach because we faced a much more mentally determined team than we are and that's something I can not accept.
"We had a similar problem in the League game at Tottenham, we talked a lot about this defeat and our approach at the time. I thought we had managed to overcome this problem, but it seems that we have the problem of showing enough determination and being mentally strong. So I'm not happy because I prefer to come to the press conference and talk to the players and talk. about tactics and why we lost tactically and strategically, but the fact is that it's extremely difficult to motivate this group of players. & # 39;
"When we see this kind of match when one team is more determined than the other, we can not really talk about tactics," he added.
"From a technical point of view, I think the teams are pretty much at the same level, but when Arsenal is more determined than us, the tactics do not even come into play. Their level of determination was pretty obvious throughout the match, especially in both penalty areas. They were clinical when they scored their goals and in defense, we stopped and we were not so determined, we were not strong enough, especially the first goal we conceded.
"Do not get me wrong, we could have lost this game anyway, but we could have it for tactical and technical reasons, but we lost it because of our determination. not to say that I'm not responsible, at least partly, for the mental approach, it's something we have to share.
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Maurizio Sarri compared Saturday's loss against Arsenal to the setback we suffered in another away derby against a North London team, the November championship match against Tottenham.
This match finished 3-1 to our opponents. Against the Gunners, the result was 2-0, as Chelsea rarely felt like going back. The closest we met was a Marcos Alonso's head against the woodwork of a glued piece.
By choosing to speak in Italian at the post-match press conference, in order to make sure that he was sending a specific message to his players, Sarri clearly knew what the main problem was with the performance: attitude and lack of determination …
"I am extremely angry," he said. "Very angry because this defeat was due to our mentality more than anything else, to our mental approach because we faced a much more mentally determined team than we are and that's something I can not accept.
"We had a similar problem in the League game at Tottenham, we talked a lot about this defeat and our approach at the time. I thought we had managed to overcome this problem, but it seems that we have the problem of showing enough determination and being mentally strong. So I'm not happy because I prefer to come to the press conference and talk to the players and talk. about tactics and why we lost tactically and strategically, but the fact is that it's extremely difficult to motivate this group of players. & # 39;
"When we see this kind of match when one team is more determined than the other, we can not really talk about tactics," he added.
"From a technical point of view, I think the teams are pretty much at the same level, but when Arsenal is more determined than us, the tactics do not even come into play. Their level of determination was pretty obvious throughout the match, especially in both penalty areas. They were clinical when they scored their goals and in defense, we stopped and we were not so determined, we were not strong enough, especially the first goal we conceded.
"Do not get me wrong, we could have lost this game anyway, but we could have it for tactical and technical reasons, but we lost it because of our determination. not to say that I'm not responsible, at least partly, for the mental approach, it's something we have to share.
