Mauricio Pochettino will be sacked at the end of the season by Chelsea, the bookies and English media have confirmed today. Hours after Arsenal’s ignominious 5-0 drubbing, the club’s heaviest London derby loss since 1986, the Argentinian’s fate seems sealed.
What’s more – media The Athletic claim that the board will meet as early as today and it is possible to end the agony, regardless of the fact that the team still have 6 championship games left in the Premier League.
Six matches – but what are they played for?
The season is a complete failure. The disaster at the Emirates came after a decent first half in which Chelsea were again outplayed but at least kept themselves in the game at 0-1.
“Things are clear for everyone – commented Pochettino. – We were not competitive from the beginning. We were soft, it was too easy for the opponent. We had no aggression, we were not concentrated. I am disappointed…
At the break we were talking about starting the second half in a completely different way. We had to take control and try to get the goal back. Instead, we gave up after getting a quick second and third.
The team showed a lack of resistance, and that’s a problem.”
The manager totally put the blame on the players with his comments, but the statistics are clear – there is no getting away from the fact that he too has to take responsibility for the season Chelsea are having.
It won’t be the lowest in Premier League history after the team finished 12th with 44 points last year. Now there are already 47. But again the failure is complete, after this line-up was assembled in the last 20 months with an investment of over 1 billion euros. It has several players for whom over 100 million individual transfer fees were paid.
Chelsea are ninth with 47 points, 30 behind leaders Arsenal.
He has 13 wins and 11 losses and his goal difference is +4. Crashed out of the FA Cup where they beat Manchester City but went down 1-0 on Saturday. Lost the League Cup final 0-1 to Liverpool. And if in these two competitions the performance is not a failure, in the championship it is an outright disaster. And it is clear that the “blues” miss the European tournaments for the second season in a row. There is no way for them to reach the sixth position, from which they are separated by 13 points.
There are already rumors about who will be Pochettino’s successor.
There is heavy talk of a return for Thomas Tuchel, who left months after the start of the “Todd Böhli” era, as well as talks with Sporting coach Ruben Amorim, who is also a target for Liverpool and West Ham.
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