“I also feel a responsibility”. “The weight of keeping people happy and making people happier is heavier than when I arrived”. It’s one of those moments in your life as a manager where you think “today is a great day”.
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“If someone thinks this season is easy, we must work a lot to improve and change the situation because now we are a great a team on the paper, not on the pitch”, Conte said.
“In the first half we played exactly the kind of football we want to play – quick combinations so that our opponents didn’t even get the chance to tackle”. We confirmed it – from the goalkeeper to the centre forward you can not fault any performance. “We still have some room for improvement”.
“In the first half, we wanted to play this high pace, put them under pressure, and play at the very high collective connection with the speed of passing”, said Wenger, who was taking charge of his first match after celebrating 20 years at the club.
When Chelsea did get in behind, substitute Pedro Rodriguez racing clear after Diego Costa had picked Laurent Koscielny’s pocket, Bellerin sprinted back to produce an impeccable recovery tackle. To get that out of the system was at stake as well today. “I told them to focus on the quality of football, to have belief, and today they did that”.
“We lost Coquelin and Granit Xhaka came on, and straight away he is at the level of the game”.
Earlier, Manchester United thrashed defending Premier League champions Leicester City 4-1 to vindicate manager Jose Mourinho’s decision to drop Wayne Rooney while Manchester City maintained their flawless start with a 3-1 win at Swansea City.
Cesc Fabregas had returned to the Chelsea starting XI after his mid-week League Cup brace at Leicester City, but the former Arsenal skipper was withdrawn nine minutes into the second half.
“I think that we didn’t have the right attitude from the first minute”.
Drogba was often the bane of Arsenal during his time at Stamford Bridge, scoring an incredible 15 goals in 16 games between 2004 and 2012. Now we are a great team only on paper, not on the pitch where it counts. “Both of them [were] committed and intelligent, technically sound, so overall I am very pleased”.
“I have to solve the situation”, he said. For this reason, two back, three back or four back, I don’t care. I just have to solve this.
“We needed a better game against a tough team, very organised, with a physical aspect”.
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“I work a lot to find the right solution”.
