Marc Cucurella believes Chelsea have to be extra “affected person with the ball” following their defeat to Flamengo within the Membership World Cup.
Chelsea misplaced 3-1 to the Brazilian facet regardless of taking the lead by way of Pedro Neto. Bruno Henrique scored and assisted one other earlier than Wallace Yan accomplished the win, whereas Nicolas Jackson was despatched off because the Blues completed with 10 males.
Enzo Maresca’s facet are actually second in Group D, behind Flamengo, which means they’d probably face Bayern Munich in the event that they qualify for the following spherical.
Chelsea had 48.5% possession within the match, as Cucurella mentioned the Convention League champions regarded to play extra immediately on this match, one thing that will want to alter heading into their ultimate group sport.
“We will have the ball extra,” Cucurella informed DAZN.
“It’s true that we tried to play extra direct, and didn’t have sufficient persistence with the ball. That’s one thing we are able to enhance lots. Now we have now time to see the clips of the issues we are able to do higher within the subsequent sport.
“For almost all, we managed the sport effectively. After we conceded the primary objective, I believe they’d this good feeling as a result of their followers began to be loud, and instantly after, we conceded the second. This can be a factor that we have now to enhance.
“We have to management the sport extra, undergo in some moments, however crucial factor is that we have now one other sport and if we win, we undergo and that’s it.”
Flamengo’s 3-1 win over Chelsea is the second time a South American crew has defeated a European crew by a number of targets on the Membership World Cup (all codecs) after Vasco da Gama’s 3-1 win over Manchester United in 2000.
And former Chelsea and Arsenal midfielder Jorginho believed it was their belief in Filipe Luis’ sport plan which gave them the win.
Jorginho mentioned: “For the sport and the way it was, we performed good soccer and did rather well on the pitch.
“After we needed to wait, we waited. After we needed to press, we put them in bother. We labored lots on how we may harm them. We imagine in what we do, and we push all collectively.
“We have been actually assured, and we all know in these large video games the main points make the distinction. Total, we have been actually good within the first half, so we mentioned, ‘let’s maintain pushing’.
“We pushed within the first half, and it labored, so we knew we wanted to do extra within the second half, and that’s what we did. We discovered the little spots that would harm them.”
Chelsea’s ultimate group match is towards ES Tunis, whereas Flamengo face Los Angeles FC, with each video games going down on June 24.