{"id":13852,"date":"2023-12-09T00:13:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T21:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/13852\/chelsea-players-feeling-the-pressure\/"},"modified":"2023-12-09T00:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T21:13:17","slug":"chelsea-players-feeling-the-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=13852","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea players feeling the pressure of poor results &#8211; Pochettino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea players feeling the pressure of poor results &#8211; Pochettino\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino says &#8220;pressure&#8221; is inevitable when results are not available as his side face an uphill battle to qualify for European football this season.<\/p>\n<p>Halfway through Pochettino&#39;s first season in charge at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea are 10th in the Premier League &#8211; four points behind ninth-placed West Ham &#8211; and will need to improve their results or face another season in mid-table.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey know exactly what we expect from them,\u201d Pochettino told a press conference on Friday.  &#8220;We are talking about young players, they have to be in a place where they feel comfortable, where they feel confident. We cannot forget that we are at a club like Chelsea. The pressure is enormous. We have to <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a>, and when you don&#39;t, I don&#39;t win, you feel the pressure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know what we need to do. We know what we&#39;re doing, but it&#39;s just a matter of time &#8212; it might take a year, it might take six months &#8212; but we&#39;re certainly giving something that will pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Chelsea have struggled to produce consistent performances in Mauricio Pochettino&#39;s first season in charge. <cite>Darren Walsh\/Chelsea FC via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Pochettino promised Chelsea would compete for Champions League qualification in the future, but refused to put a time frame on when he expected to do so and appeared to admit it is unlikely to happen this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will challenge [for Champions League qualification places], Yes.  Maybe not now, but in the future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Chelsea travel to face Everton, who have won two of their three matches since being stripped of 10 points for breaching the Premier League&#39;s profit and sustainability rules.<\/p>\n<p>Striker Christopher Nkunku is unlikely to make his Chelsea debut this weekend, the Argentina manager has said, as he continues to recover from a knee injury he suffered in pre-season .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea players feeling the pressure of poor results &#8211; Pochettino\u060c Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino says &#8220;pressure&#8221; is inevitable when results are not available as his side face an uphill battle to qualify for European football this season. Halfway through Pochettino&#39;s first season in charge at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea are 10th in the Premier League &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2687,3327,23,3932,36,2378,242],"class_list":["post-13852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-feeling","tag-players","tag-pochettino","tag-poor","tag-pressure","tag-results"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13854,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852\/revisions\/13854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}