Mauricio Pochettino following sound defeat at Anfield: ‘They deserved to win’

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Chelsea’s head coach Mauricio Pochettino was sincere in revealing his opinion on yesterday’s Premier League match between Chelsea and Liverpool, saying the opponents deserved their 4–1 victory.

It is likely a scary result for Chelsea who are looking to meet the same team at Wembley Stadium for the Carabao Cup final.

‘It’s not about finding excuses,’ Pochettino said to Chelseafc.com. ‘I think the performance was worse from us. They deserved to win, they were better than us. Being honest we didn’t perform in the way that we wanted to perform. They were better than us from the first action.

‘It was so clear, they were more aggressive than us. For us it was difficult to connect and to play and always when we recovered the ball with our first or second touch we gave it away again so easily.

‘They won all the duels, I just think they competed better. In all the areas they were better than us, that is why they won.

‘In the second half at 2-0 there was the big chance for Mudryk. If he scored maybe that would start to build our confidence and we would play better, and also with the penalty in the action on Nkunku, maybe we would be in the game at 2-2 at that point.

‘But even if we scored both of those and got a draw I would be disappointed because our performance wasn’t great.

‘It’s good to have this feeling because it’s only one game, because if we want to compete against a team like Liverpool which is very consistent in the last few years competing for trophies and is one of the best in England, then we need to improve and we need to learn from this kind of game.’

Mauricio Pochettino is raising a new team at Stamford Bridge, and has witnessed progress both in performance and cohesion.