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On whether it’s possible to know what to expect from Chelsea under interim head coach Calum McFarlane…<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, absolutely, because all managers have their own idea about football. What I mean, they’ve had three this season and I think the current manager is a bit closer to what (Enzo) Maresca usually did. So, he has a very clear identity in how he plays, so it’s exactly clear what to expect. It’s usually the three-box-three they are playing with. It depends a little bit with which players they are using, how they fill in the positions. They have a very clear identity, as they had under (Liam) Rosenior, but they also have a clear identity under this manager.<\/p>\n On finishing the season on a positive note…<\/strong><\/p>\n I think the season has gone in a way that even if we have three wins and three very positive results, I don’t think everyone will still be positive about how we ended the season (or) how the season has been. It’s important, as I said now so many times, that we get at least one win over the line, which we think is enough to qualify (for the Champions League) \u2013 we’re not sure because four points makes it completely clear. That’s what we need to do and what we are trying, which we’ve tried the whole season \u2013 to do this in the best possible way performing-wise, which has not always happened, but that’s always been the aim. The positive thing is that a few of the players that can be really important for us are either coming back for the weekend or after the weekend, so that can only help us to achieve what we want to achieve.<\/p>\n On what’s required for the team to not be ‘so vulnerable to counter-attacks’…<\/strong><\/p>\n In moments we’ve been vulnerable in counter-attacks. It’s not like we concede 10 counter-attacks a game or eight or seven or six. At Manchester (United), we conceded two counter-attacks, indeed, where one of the two went in. The other one was just almost close (from) Bruno Fernandes. But I don’t think that’s the only thing we’ve been vulnerable at. When we are in a low block, defending crosses, there are too many things (where) we’ve been too vulnerable in moments. <\/p>\n But it would also help if we would score more goals, because I think controlling the game from a 2-0 lead is always easier than being 1-0 down or 2-0 down or 1-1 or 2-2. It’s a mix of everything and I said many times it’s, for me, very clear and obvious where we have to improve, and that’s what we’ve tried to achieve throughout the whole season. It has worked with ups and downs but it’s definitely something we will address in the summer, where we think we can improve on (in) the market and then afterwards on the training ground.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On whether it’s possible to know what to expect from Chelsea under interim head coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}