Sarri insisted it was not tactics or physical problems which hampered his players, as they lost 1-0 to Leicester thanks to Jamie Vardy’s strike, but ‘mental confusion’. “I had a sports psychologist 15 years ago in Italy but it was difficult, because the clubs were not ready then. On Saturday we were very good for 55 minutes and then two minutes after the goal we were in trouble. “Sometimes we were unlucky, other times it was our fault, other times it was external elements. But Puel’s team, outplayed for 45 minutes at Stamford Bridge, dug in admirably to inflict Chelsea’s first home defeat of the season.

Source: Express December 23, 2018 22:30 UTC