Saturday, 4 August 2012

RDM: We were not aggressive enough


Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo said his team did not give him the performance he expected at Brighton on Saturday.
 
Di Matteo believes a lot of work need to be done on his team after they suffered a 3-1 defeat.
 
He said: 'I was expecting more from my team in terms of urgency and movement. I was looking for a better performance than the one we gave today.
 
'We were too stretched, never aggressive enough and didn't get the ball back quickly enough when we lost it. With the ball, there wasn't enough movement and there were a lot of things we didn't do. We have to be a bit more focused and sharper.
 
'We haven't had the whole team together yet. Some players have only been back nine days, some 16, some 21 and some are not back at all, but when they are back we can all work together.
 
'Hazard played on the left, we want him to be incisive, he had good spells but we need to be patient, he's a young man coming from a different league and it takes time to adapt.
 
'I was looking to get some players 90 minutes so I didn't want to make many changes, seven played the whole game and we left some players back at Cobham to train.
 
'A lot of the goals have been individual errors that will be cut out when we get into the rhythm of the league and the fitness is there.
 
'There aren't going to be radical changes, but with the integration of new players inevitably we will change a bit. The way we want to play is to win many games and score goals.'

 
Aug. 4, 2012.

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