Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino has questioned the media’s attitude towards his team compared to Liverpool, with a highly questionable example showing their recent reaction to Liverpool’s loss to Arsenal.
The Blues are 11th in the Premier League after back-to-back defeats against Liverpool and Wolves, both of which saw them score four goals.It has been a difficult season for Chelsea and Pochettino after the club made another major spending spree during the summer transfer window, spending over £160m on defensive midfielders alone. Despite their mid-table struggles, recent reports suggest the Blues hierarchy have no intention of sacking Pochettino (at least not yet), with the Argentine likely to stay for the Carabao Cup final against Liverpool in February 25.
But the pressure seems to be on Pochettino as well. Speaking at a press conference ahead of Chelsea’s FA Cup clash with Aston Villa, the former Tottenham boss accused the media of misrepresenting his reign at Stamford Bridge by making meaningless comparisons with Liverpool.
He told reporters: “I’m a coach, right? As coaches we can make mistakes sometimes but that’s football and it happens and we have to move on and be strong. I think we have very good players. [But] for many reasons, as I explained, we don’t perform as well as people expect, and it’s hard to get what you want when expectations are always different from reality.“So the patience never came. “After losing to Liverpool: ‘Oh, what a failure. Look at [Chelsea], how bad they are.” Of course, now we’ve lost, and when we play against Liverpool, against Arsenal, against Liverpool, we haven’t heard the result.”What happened against Liverpool has consequences for the players because we are a team that needs all the confidence and support we can get.
People have to understand the situation and we can’t send people a different message and people think that it is not the case”. it happened.”Share your contrastPochettino’s attempts to drag Liverpool down really cannot stand up to scrutiny. United performed poorly in a 3-1 defeat against Arsenal on Sunday and were understandably criticized in the media as a result, but Jurgen Klopp’s side remain top of the Premier League and have lost twice.
This makes it difficult for potential opponents to attack Red. Chelsea, meanwhile, are 20 points behind Liverpool and have lost 10 times in the league in the 2023/24 season, including a 4-1 defeat at Anfield last month.After Wolves lost 4-2 at home, Pochettino has 14 wins, 6 draws and 11 defeats in 31 games and his winning percentage (45) is lower than that of former manager Frank Lampard. (52). . After 23 games under Pochettino, Chelsea’s 31 Premier League points are three times as many as they were before Graham Potter was sacked after 22 games and Pochettino has lost eight times under the Blues manager.
The differences between Liverpool and Chelsea could not be starker, with the only similarity between the two clubs being that they both travel to Wembley later this month. On form, the All Reds hope Pochettino will still be in charge on February 25.
