Upset, Sarri Got Angry to Chelsea Players After Arsenal Defeat

DBasia.news – Chelsea got a 0-2 defeat against Arsenal on the 23rd-week of Premier League at Emirates Stadium, Sunday (20/1). Chelsea’s performance was really poor in that match.

Two Arsenal goals happened in the first half by Alexandre Lacazette and Laurent Koscielny. Chelsea won the ball possession 65:35 percent, but only created one on-target shot from 13 chances.

The host played more passionately with 13 chances, 5 of them met the target. Chelsea couldn’t do much in the front line and their strategy was easy to read by Arsenal who got conceded 32 goals in the Premier League.

After the match, Chelsea manager didn’t even use the English language to deliver his message. He was really serious about that failure.

Not talking about the tactic, the Italian manager bluntly initiated the war by criticizing them publicly. Sarri seems to give up with Cesar Azpilicueta and friends weak mentality.

“I have to say that I’m extremely angry because this defeat was down to mentality. They were far more determined than we were and I can’t accept that. It was similar to Spurs – I spoke to the players and I thought it was solved,” Sarri told Goal.

“I want to talk about tactics but it would appear this group of players are very difficult to motivate. I think when you see this type of game where one team is more determined then you can’t talk about tactics. Their level of determination was much better than ours throughout the game.”

So frustrated of Chelsea players mentality, Sarri said that they shouldn’t play in the high level if they are not improving.

“That’s a difficult question to answer. It seems that they’re not aggressive enough mentally – that’s down to their personalities and that’s difficult to change,” Sarri added.

“You have to influence them and that could be down to a new player coming in or one of the old heads taking control.”

“I don’t think a player at this level can be afraid to face up to their responsibilities. The best thing that can happen is that the players and I speak very openly. I am the person responsible for the players and it’s important for them to have the right attitude. If they can’t achieve that then maybe they shouldn’t be playing at this level,” the 60-year-old man concluded.