I’ve not finished sufficient for this membership: Chelsea coach Graham Porter takes accountability for poor type

Premier League: Chelsea coach Graham Potter stated he understood why followers had been asking how for much longer he would keep within the job after a contemporary loss in opposition to Tottenham Hotspur.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 26, 2023 23:40 IST

Graham Potter has had horrible run with Chelsea. (Reuters Photo)

By India Today Sports Desk: Chelsea coach Graham Potter stated after their 2-0 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur within the Premier League that he understood why the followers would need him to be sacked.

Speaking after a 2-0 defeat on the residence of arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur – the thirteenth time in 15 video games in all competitions that Chelsea have didn’t win – Potter stated he was annoyed and upset by the most recent setback.

“Well, there’s always that question,” he stated when requested concerning the endurance of Chelsea’s American homeowners who’ve up to now proven far more restraint than former Blues proprietor Roman Abramovich would sometimes hearth coaches after a couple of dangerous outcomes.

He pointed to the best way Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta had led his aspect to the highest of the Premier League this season after coming underneath fierce criticism from Gunners’ followers in earlier years after they struggled.

Potter additionally highlighted Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp’s incapability to halt the slide in type of his aspect after profitable the Champions League and the Premier League lately.

“That’s just the nature of football and obviously I haven’t done enough for this club to have too much good faith,” stated the previous Brighton & Hove Albion coach – who arrived at Stamford Bridge final September.

“I try to focus on keep helping the team supporting the players because I really like these players, they’re good lads, they want to do better,” he added. “But at the moment we’re suffering and that’s my responsibility.”

Potter additionally confronted questions from reporters about his aspect’s incapability to attain, having discovered the online solely as soon as of their final 5 league video games.

Unlike latest matches, such because the 1-0 defeat by Borussia Dortmund within the Champions League and a 1-0 residence loss to backside membership Southampton, when the Blues didn’t convert a string of probabilities, each they and Spurs didn’t create many alternatives on Sunday, he stated.

The lack of a number of gamers via harm and easing them again into motion, plus integrating a number of recent signings, represented challenges, Potter added.

“So as a team, we’re just not quite there in terms of how we want it to look and how we want to really function in a good way. And scoring goals is the difficult part of the game,” he stated.

Edited By:

Kingshuk Kusari

Published On:

Feb 26, 2023