Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino says the priority is winning games not clean sheets as they prepare to face Everton on Monday
Cobham, London, UK
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00:00 How frustrating is it that you can't keep clean sheets?
00:03 And how important is it to turn that around if you are going to qualify for Europe?
00:08 I think in the last 7-8 games that we didn't lose in the Premier League,
00:18 I think for me the most important is to win games.
00:22 Of course, after the priority will be to have a clean sheet and not to concede.
00:29 But at the moment it's about winning games. We need three points.
00:33 Of course, I want to keep your goal safe and not to concede chances and not to concede goals.
00:44 But it's not work like this.
00:48 Because if we are only thinking to try to have a clean sheet,
00:52 maybe we need to play with 10 players, the keeper and 10 players that are more defensive
00:58 and see if in some transition or set-pieces we can score one goal.
01:03 But I think Chelsea, under my opinion, is about to go forward to create chances to score goals
01:10 and of course, after to have the good balance.
01:12 Because we have in the squad players that can attack, can be very aggressive in the last third,
01:19 in the opposite, you know, box.
01:22 But then we need to be and behave in the same way when we don't have the ball.
01:26 That is what we are missing.
01:28 We talk about being more mature and being more competitive.
01:31 It's to manage and to deal with the two phases in the same way.
01:35 When we are offensive, creating chances and being clinical.
01:39 But also when we don't have the ball, it's to show more aggressivity, be more consistent,
01:48 be more, you know, to show more togetherness.
01:54 And sometimes we are missing this type of thing.
01:57 It's easy to watch. We go forward, we create chances, we have, you know, very good data about that.
02:04 But when we lose the ball, always we react a little bit late, always we are disappointed,
02:09 we are frustrated, we blame each other, why we don't give the ball like this.
02:13 You can see, you know, when you watch the game, that we are changing,
02:17 but still not in the level to be consistent enough.
02:21 But if we were working a lot this week and hope that little by little, step by step,
02:26 we are going to change and of course we will arrive the day that we have very good balance
02:32 in between these two phases.