This Saturday, Tottenham travels to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge for the London derby. A meeting which promises to be complicated for the Spurs, regularly in difficulty against the Blues in recent seasons. But for Roberto De Zerbi, this bad series must not become a psychological blockage for his players. Asked at a press conference about the possible fear of his team before this trip, the Italian technician brushed aside this idea. “ No, I don’t think so. I only faced Chelsea once as Tottenham manager. This must be an additional motivation for us “, he explained. A way of reminding you that the results of previous confrontations should not influence the state of mind of your group.
The former Olympique de Marseille coach also insisted that he did not feel concerned by Tottenham’s historic difficulties against their London rival. “ I wasn’t the Tottenham manager in the past. I think it’s not a problem. We already have a lot of problems, but this is not one of them “, he continued. De Zerbi thus prefers to focus on his team’s current difficulties rather than on the statistics of recent seasons.
