The Mo Salah video
“I don't want to talk about this because I didn't see the video, so I don't want to talk about something I don't know about the case. I want to speak about football.”
Team looked a bit sluggish?
“We knew very well that, to play here, is really very difficult. The opponents are really very physical, very aggressive. And so we knew very well that we had to face difficulties during the match.
"We were able to face them well, and then in the second half we were able to play better. Now I think we need to think that the second leg will be difficult because these opponents are really very dangerous also away. Like in the round against Genk. And so we need to be careful.
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"It's very difficult to face them. Really very difficult. I'm really happy with the result. Also with the performance because, in this moment, we are able to suffer. In the past we were not able to suffer in the difficult moments of the match.”
Hudson-Odoi? Set to start on Sunday?
“Oh, I don't know. But in my opinion he needed to rest. And so, in this match, he was out. Emerson was also out. But of course he is in my mind for the next match, but I have to see the last two trainings.”
Club acted very quickly to bar these people from the stadium. Right to act firmly?
“Yes, I think it's right. But you have to ask the club. I don't want to speak about something I haven't seen. It's not right, I think, if I talk about something I know nothing about. Of course it's right that the club has a very strong decision. I think that's right.”
Always your plan to bring Eden Hazard on?
“No, at the beginning of the match I wanted him on the bench because I thought that, probably, the match was really very difficult. Probably I'd need to use him. Of course, if at the end of the first half we were 1-0, I wouldn't have used him.”
Saw your team suffer... you saw a different character today?
“Not for the first time but, in the past, when we were in trouble we'd concede immediately a goal. Now we are able to stay in trouble, to fight, to suffer without conceding anything. And so I think that's a step forward for us.”
Chelsea prevent three people attending game with Slavia Prague after racist Mo Salah video
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