This Sunday, at 3 p.m., Chelsea face Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium. A match not to be lost or rather, to be won for the Blues who have only one victory in 4 days of the Premier League so far. Faced with pressure and the immense expectations of the general public on the London recruits, all extremely young, Mauricio Pochettino advocates patience by asking his men for time. “We now have a very young team, players who are good investments for the club. We need to know that they are young and they need to adapt to the circumstances and stay calm. It’s not fair to evaluate after one game, two games, three games and say they’re not performing well.»
The Argentinian even offers himself a comparison with Zizou: “I always use the same example: Real Madrid paid 70 or 80 million for a player named Zinédine Zidane. He was an incredible player, but after six months you can ask the fans at the Bernabeu, and they were like, ‘oh, what did we buy?’ He started to adapt after seven or eight months. Zidane was 26 or 27 years old. When you buy players aged 20 or 21, you have to be careful. They are not machines. They must accept all the circumstances that have arisen over the past few months. You have to give time.” It is nevertheless difficult to go against the Chelsea coach who has to deal with around ten unavailable players. “We have to recover the injured players and it will be difficult to play against us”he concluded before the match against the Cherries.
