Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino on the importance of youngsters in their remaining games as they prepare to face West Ham and the return of players to fitness
Stamford Bridge, Chelsea, London, UK
Stamford Bridge, Chelsea, London, UK
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00:00 We looked at the team sheet tonight and saw that your bench was like a kindergarten and
00:05 there were some kids there that I mean some of us never even heard of. Is there a chance,
00:10 you said yesterday maybe that Nkunku and maybe one or two others?
00:14 Levi, Levi, Colwell.
00:16 Sorry?
00:17 Colwell, Colwell maybe.
00:18 Yes, I mean A) is there a chance they could play but B) more importantly how important
00:23 are those kids going to be for you if they're not because you cannot really afford to lose
00:28 ground now with this head of steam, this momentum you have, you can't lose it now?
00:33 The good thing that the players that need to arrive from inshore now they really know
00:40 and they are going to feel that they need to make the effort. It's not because you're
00:46 a big name you have a right to come here and go and play and play in the way that you want.
00:52 That is I think the most important thing today that we can learn. We can learn that it's
00:58 not about quality because when you are in Chelsea suppose that you have the quality
01:04 but the most important thing is to go and work for the team, is to play giving your
01:09 best and be in your best because if you go there and you don't compete and only you compete
01:18 or your level is 50% I think it's better another with less quality, maybe younger but
01:25 you know competing in their best 100%. That is what happened during the season that maybe
01:32 we have lack of some time players not in their best to really compete and really to get the
01:43 result that we deserve.
01:44 Sorry, am I right in thinking you mean that some of the players may have to play despite
01:49 being in pain?
01:50 No, no, no I didn't say that. No, I say that when you came from inshore you always need
01:59 time to build your best, you know condition to play in your best and always because of
02:06 different circumstances, setbacks, always we never got or we get the whole team in our
02:15 best you know and that is the difficult thing that sometimes explain why we were inconsistent
02:22 you know during the whole season. No, no, no with pain, no one player play with pain.
02:28 Yeah right sure.
02:29 Never, never.