Mauricio Pochettino said it about the maturity of the squad and the progress Chelsea must make in order to be back for the top-four race.
“That is a process that you need to think a little bit about the… to give time. Today we created chances, I think we dominated the game, but in the end, we were not clinical enough, I think in the latter.”
“We should score if we want to win and make one mistake and we concede a goal. Yes disappointed, but not frustrated because, in this type of process, you need some luck in some situation.”
“I’m not going to take credit to Nottingham Forest because we knew how we should play. But today we were not clinical in both areas and we made a mistake and we considered and then we created too many opportunities. We dominate and we are playing in the opposite half within scoring. When you don’t score is difficult to win games.
Sign of Immaturity…
Asked by the journalists if this game was a sign of immaturity, Pochettino responded that these games help the squad be more mature.
“These kinds of game helps the squad be more mature and not to feel the competition. It’s not only to have quality after this. This is about competing in another way to match their aggressivity, to match the energy, to match the desire. I think, of course, we were better. We cannot say, we didn’t deserve more, but in football all the stats sometimes yes can reflect what you do, but in that case, we create but we didn’t score.”
“We had only a few shoots in target that we should shoot more, but is about the process. The process is all the team that builds something is up and down. We were not lucky because I think today and West Ham United we didn’t get the point.”
“But I think it keeps going it is positive and I think it is a process like I told you before it is a matter of time, only.”
The connection with the crowd…
“I can understand, you know the people that came from the past and they want the team to win and play well. We are not playing fantastic, but I think our performance is not bad. If we scored in the first few minutes we had two big chances and we scored 2-0 maybe we finished differently today.”
“But I understand, the fans want to win and we need to give the possibility for them to be happy and yes we need to keep working. We need to be positive, I understand we are in Chelsea and we should win every single game”
Chelsea will have to find their form and return to win to reduce pressure in the managerial staff.