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Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino wants his team to develop a ruthless edge, especially against struggling teams. Or, as he put it, ‘To have the balls to win the ball.’
Pochettino was distressed at the ease with which Sheffield United won a series of challenges ahead of Oli McBurnie’s late equaliser in the 2-2 draw between the teams at Bramall Lane eight days ago.
And with Chelsea hosting another side battling the drop on Monday evening in Everton, Pochettino is looking for an improvement.
‘We have enough talent to win games,’ he said. ‘But the difficult thing in the Premier League is another phase, when you don’t have the ball. When you don’t have the ball, you need to have the balls. Understand? To have the balls to recover the ball.’
As a player at Newell’s Old Boys, Espanyol, Paris Saint-Germain and Argentina Pochettino had that desire to compete in bucket loads
