{"id":13802,"date":"2024-01-10T10:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T10:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=13802"},"modified":"2024-01-10T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T10:04:08","slug":"pochettinos-blues-crash-to-defeat-at-boro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/10\/pochettinos-blues-crash-to-defeat-at-boro\/","title":{"rendered":"Pochettino&#8217;s Blues Crash to Defeat at Boro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>Chelsea will have to overturn a 1-0 deficit at Stamford Bridge after they were stunned by Championship side Middlesbrough in the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s men lost a League Cup match to lower-league opposition for the first time since 1999 but the former Tottenham head coach believes his side played well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>He said: &#8220;The pressure was good and intensity, we cannot say anything.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>&#8220;We made some mistakes in the first half, we gave them chances to scores and they were so aggressive and tough. They play in the transition with the counter-attack and in a block really deep and it was difficult for us to break down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>&#8220;We had too many chances to score when we didn&#8217;t score, that is football. We are disappointed but it is the first half of the tie. We need to be positive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>Chelsea missed several big chances and enjoyed 72% possession at the Riverside Stadium but it was not enough to down Michael Carrick&#8217;s resilient squad.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>If you assess the performance, overall we were the better side, we created more chances and had the clear chances.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>&#8220;But we didn&#8217;t score. That has happened this season and there has been a lot of games we have not won because we were not clinical enough.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>&#8220;We have a lack of goals but not creating chances. We are creating many chances but not scoring them and if you don&#8217;t score it is difficult to win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>The Blues will have the chance to make up for their mistakes in the capital on January 23,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea will have to overturn a 1-0 deficit at Stamford Bridge after they were stunned by Championship side Middlesbrough in the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final. Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s men lost a League Cup match to lower-league opposition for the first time since 1999 but the former Tottenham head coach believes his side played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":13803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-13802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chelsea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13849,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802\/revisions\/13849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}