{"id":298318,"date":"2023-11-26T23:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T23:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=298318"},"modified":"2023-11-26T23:25:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T23:25:59","slug":"craig-hope-pochettino-fuelled-chelsea-chaos-with-threat-to-days-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/craig-hope-pochettino-fuelled-chelsea-chaos-with-threat-to-days-off\/","title":{"rendered":"CRAIG HOPE: Pochettino fuelled Chelsea chaos with threat to days off"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>CRAIG HOPE: Mauricio Pochettino fuelled Chelsea chaos by threatening to cancel his players&#8217; days off\u2026 the confused postscript was befitting of their clumsy defeat at Newcastle\u00a0<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mauricio Pochettino fuelled Chelsea chaos by threatening to cancel days off<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>Newcastle United beat Chelsea 4-1 in a lively encounter at St James&#8217; Park<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>IAN LADYMAN: It&#8217;s nonsense to care where Chris Kavanagh was born \u2013 IAKO<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fifteen minutes after full-time, Chelsea\u2019s unused substitute Alex Matos stood on the touchline at the entrance to the tunnel and asked a member of backroom staff, \u2018Are the others coming out? Where are they?\u2019. He was told they were in the dressing-room.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation continued, all fairly laid-back and jovial. Matos, 19, then asked the coach if it was right the squad now had two days off. Yes, it was. The player seemed surprised. Finally, a couple of other substitutes joined him and they set off on a jog around the St James\u2019 Park pitch. They were moving quicker than some of their team-mates had done earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in a television interview room, Mauricio Pochettino was saying: \u2018We were talking in the dressing room after the game. We should go directly to the hotel and sleep, and start to train early in the morning and not have a day off.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A few hours later and the club were keen to stress this was all a misunderstanding and the players\u2019 time off had not been cancelled. It was a confused and clumsy postscript to a confused and clumsy performance.<\/p>\n<p>Was Pochettino\u2019s threat an empty one all along, or had he changed his mind? Or was it all just lost in translation? And why weren\u2019t those taking part in the post-match exercise out on the pitch with young Matos when, it would appear, they should have been? The forward was yawning as he waited in the cold.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/26\/21\/78257607-12793479-image-a-3_1701034933096.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino said two days off were cancelled after Chelsea&#8217;s 4-1 defeat to Newcastle<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/26\/21\/78257601-12793479-image-m-5_1701034977056.jpg\" height=\"481\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s unused substitute Alex Matos seemed surprised that the time off was still coming<\/p>\n<p>The whole day, from kick-off to nightfall, felt as much like the wheels coming off as a bump in the road. Pochettino was supposed to bring calm and competence to a club for whom chaos had become the norm. But this could easily have been Graham Potter or Frank Lampard in charge.<\/p>\n<h3>MATCH STATS\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>Newcastle (4-3-3): <\/span>Pope 6.5; Trippier 7, Lascelles 7 (Dummett 86), Schar 7, Livramento 7; Miley 8 (Diallo 90), Guimaraes 8, Joelinton 7.5; Almiron 8 (A Murphy 87), Isak 7 (Ritchie 81), Gordon 8.5 (Ndiwini 90),<\/p>\n<p><span>Subs not used:<\/span> Dubravka, Gillespie, Karius, Parkinson<\/p>\n<p><span>Manager:<\/span> Eddie Howe 8<\/p>\n<p><span>Goals:<\/span> Isak 13, Lascelles 60, Joelinton 61, Gordon 83<\/p>\n<p><span>Chelsea (4-2-3-1): <\/span>Sanchez 5; James 4, Thiago Silva 4.5, Badiashile 4, Cucurella 4.5; Enzo 5, Ugochukwu 5 (Caicedo 69); Palmer 5 (Colwill 75), Gallagher 5 (Mudryk 67, 5), Sterling 6 (Madueke 87); Jackson 5.5 (Broja 69, 5)<\/p>\n<p><span>Subs not used: <\/span>Petrovic, Disasi, Maatsen, Matos<\/p>\n<p><span>Manager:<\/span> Mauricio Pochettino 5<\/p>\n<p><span>Goal: <\/span>Sterling 23<\/p>\n<p><span>Referee:<\/span> S Hooper 7<\/p>\n<p><span>Man Of The Match:<\/span> Gordon<\/p>\n<p><span>Attendance: <\/span>52, 227<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, 12 months ago in the same fixture, Newcastle beat Potter\u2019s Chelsea 1-0. Mail Sport labelled the Blues \u2018a bunch of misfits\u2019 that day. Has anything changed? Yes, they have got worse, statistically and aesthetically. They had 21 points from 14 games a year ago. It is 16 from 13 now.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea came close to nicking a draw last season as the hosts defended their lead late on. This time, it was Chelsea sitting back in a bid to minimise the damage, most of which had been self-inflicted anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Reece James had already been sent off by this point. What does it say about the mindset of a team when its leader is booked for kicking the ball away and then shown a second yellow for tripping an opponent after a hopelessly heavy touch? James could have let Anthony Gordon go, stayed on the pitch and been available for next Sunday at home to Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>Pochettino was watching from the stands as he served a touchline ban &#8211; another sign of the ill-discipline that continues to plague a club who have the Premier League\u2019s worst disciplinary record. Six yellow cards and a red might look from afar as if Chelsea went down fighting here. They didn\u2019t, and the most feisty display was Pochettino\u2019s post-game take-down of his players, calling them \u2018soft in every challenge\u2019, \u2018not ready to compete\u2019 and questioning their \u2018maturity, personality and character\u2019. There was no misinterpreting those words. It\u2019s little wonder he doesn\u2019t want to see them for a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>Recent England debutant Cole Palmer was outshone by man-of-the-match and scorer of Newcastle\u2019s fourth, Anthony Gordon, who can\u2019t get in the Three Lions squad. Thiago Silva gave the ball to Joelinton for the third, while both the Brazilian and Benoit Badiashile went AWOL for Alexander Isak\u2019s opener and Jamaal Lascelles\u2019 headed second. Raheem Sterling had equalised with a fine free-kick in the first half, but it was a false dawn. Rather, the lights went out at half-time. Pochettino called it their worst performance of the season.<\/p>\n<p>For Eddie Howe &#8211; without 13 senior players &#8211; it was, he said, the most satisfying win of his two years in charge. His side had looked organised and motivated. Chelsea, by comparison, were an uninspired mess. Still, at least they have a couple of days at home to reflect.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/26\/21\/78257773-12793479-image-a-6_1701035097439.jpg\" height=\"414\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Eddie Howe said Newcastle&#8217;s win, despite injuries, was his most satisfying one in charge there<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12793479\/CRAIG-HOPE-Mauricio-Pochettino-fuelled-Chelsea-chaos-threatening-cancel-players-days-confused-postscript-befitting-clumsy-defeat-Newcastle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRAIG HOPE: Mauricio Pochettino fuelled Chelsea chaos by threatening to cancel his players&#8217; days off\u2026 the confused postscript was befitting of their clumsy defeat at Newcastle\u00a0 Mauricio Pochettino fuelled Chelsea chaos by threatening to cancel days off Newcastle United beat Chelsea 4-1 in a lively encounter at St James&#8217; 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