Perth Glory hold their own friendly defeat at Chelsea | Soccer

Chelsea's new coach, Maurizio Sarri, is not entirely satisfied with his team's 1-0 win against Perth Glory, but he must now focus on more pressing issues. Chelsea is slender with a fifth-minute goal to Pedro in front of 55,522 spectators at Optus Stadium in Perth on Monday night, but the winners of the 2018 England Cup have failed to add that. goal, Glory goaltender, Liam Reddy,

Chelsea also hit the post twice, and Glory threatened to snatch an equalizer late in the game after producing a series of promising offensive raids.

Sarri took the place of Antonio Conte's coach earlier this month, and he always knew that it would take time for his team to be aware of things. But he is out of the field where the Italian now has to work his magic, with stars like Eden Hazard, Thibaut Courtois and Willian who are about to leave Chelsea.

Sarri says he hopes to talk to them all face coping at the end of the month, and he is optimistic that they will stay. "I would like to talk to someone face to face, I do not like talking to someone over the phone," said Sarri. "It's clear that for me it's a pleasure to have Courtois, to have Willian, to have Hazard.But it does not depend on me, not just me." So we have to wait. "

Chelsea dominated the first half, but Glory held on in the second half. "I'm happy with the first half and the first 15 minutes of the second half, not the last 30 minutes," said Sarri.

Tony Popovic, new coach of Perth Glory, gave time to new recruits Juande, Ivan Franjic, Fabio Ferreira, Jason Davidson and Brendon Santalab. Davidson was impressive on the left-back, Ferreira was giving Glory's spark in the second half, while Santalab was almost leveling the game towards the end of the match.

"Everything went well for us," Popovic said. "It's still pre-season, we have no injuries and the show was excellent.It's something we should all remember.I think that in general, the effort, the pace of work, the commitment of the players that I was trying to make was excellent.They should take a lot.We will learn from the experience. "