Not that Chelsea’s head coach has ever been particularly reticent when challenging his employers in public. “If you ask me if we can play better then, yes, we can play better, but after this game,” he said. If you want to change then we can change our idea, but you must change many players. Last season, after we won the Premier League, we spoke with the club and tried to find the right way to defend our title. The mountain we had to climb was very high, very high, very high … but, despite this, we lifted an important trophy.”The Fiver: sign up and get our daily football email.

Source: The Guardian May 20, 2018 21:22 UTC