Chelsea defender Andreas Christensen says the membership should discover a fast resolution to their defensive struggles if they’re to advance within the Champions League.
The London membership misplaced 3-1 at dwelling to Actual Madrid within the quarter-final first leg match performed on Wednesday evening.
The Dane, specifically, had an evening to neglect as Vinicius Jr’s tempo and trickery have been an excessive amount of for him to deal with, and was withdrawn at half-time as coach Thomas Tuchel made a tactical change.
Talking after the match, Christensen pinpointed the current objectives the membership has shipped as the first supply of concern.
“We weren’t at our top-level,” he mentioned.
“We began good for 10 or quarter-hour, good vitality with the group behind us – and so they stayed behind us the entire recreation – however they efficiently took the tempo out of the sport.
“Now we have conceded seven objectives now in two video games which isn’t regular for us. It’s not nearly this recreation, we did it as properly on the weekend. Now we have to repair it, and we have now to do it fast,”
The Blues are nevertheless lucky there isn’t any away aim rule this season, giving them slim hopes forward of subsequent week.
“It’s two objectives, it’s nonetheless going to be very troublesome, however it will probably’t be worse than this. Now we have to go there and make a giant efficiency,”
“Now we have to try to flip it round but it surely’s going to be troublesome. We weren’t on high and we all know that, however we have now nothing to lose so we have now to go there, put in a giant efficiency and hopefully flip it round,”
Tuchel and firm will now shift their consideration to this weekend’s Premier League match towards Southampton.
