Chelsea manager, Mauricio Pochettino stated that his side need to emulate Liverpool and indicated they ‘need to feel the pain’ after losing 1-0 to the Reds in the Carabao Cup final.
At Wembley on Sunday evening, Virgil van Dijk’s header in the 118th minute sealed the victory for Jurgen Klopp’s severely dwindled Liverpool team.
Ryan Gravenberch was stretchered off the field in the first half. Wataru Endo and the Dutchman left the stadium wearing protective boots and crutches. The Reds entered the game shorthanded by 11 players due to injuries.
Liverpool overcame such hardships to win the eighth trophy under Klopp’s leadership. Nevertheless, Pochettino would use the Reds’ defeats from the German first finals—the League Cup and Europa League Cup finals in 2016 and the Champions League finals in 2018—as inspiration for his own team.
What Did Pochettino Say About His Team?
“They need to feel the pain like us,” the Argentine said of Chelsea as revealed by Liverpool Echo. “And of course to realise we need to work more, we need to do better things, we need to improve.
“To compete at this level against a team that is in the last six or seven years is competing for things.
“It’s about to arrive here first and then feel what it means to play for a big trophy. I remember after three or four years, Liverpool lost the Champions League, lost the Europa League. And they believe in the project and in the next season were stronger until they got what they wanted.
“We are a young team. Nothing to compare with Liverpool because they also finished with young players,” he conceded. “It’s impossible to compare.
“And he (Neville) knows that the dynamics are completely different. We were playing today Liverpool and Chelsea, Chelsea and Liverpool, and I don’t think it’s fair to speak in this way.
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