Reece James was Chelsea’s Man of the Match in the draw with Arsenal yesterday, and there was a lot of chat about how well he had done.
Of course what we really want to do is hear from the man himself, and he spoke to Chelsea’s official website after the game about his and his team’s performance.
“Proud” James happy for young team
Reece James speaks to Sky Sports.
Reece James speaks to Sky Sports.
“‘I’m proud. The team is so young, but we went toe-to-toe with the team at the top of the Premier League at the moment,” the captain said.
“We didn’t show fear and we tried to come out to win the game. Unfortunately we weren’t able to do that, but there were a lot of positives to take from the game.
“We knew the game was going to be tough, but to be honest it was a game we felt we probably could have won. It was difficult to only walk away with a point considering how well we did.
“We played 60 minutes with 10 men, having to cope with all of their players – they are a very good team, they’re the league leaders at the moment. We went toe-to-toe with them, so we have lots of good things to take away.”
That’s what we liked most about the performance – the nerve it took to battle a super confident team when down to ten and to mentally stay strong when we could have folded. We don’t think we would have seen that a year ago.
In other news…
James’ all action performance was too much for Arsenal to handle – he drew 4 fouls from Gunners, and 3 of them brought yellow cards. That has led to some pretty interesting consequences for Mikel Arteta’s team.
With Cole Palmer and Dario Essugo now back in the squad, Chelsea have the deepest group they’ve had in a while, and it could prove crucial in the busy weeks to come.
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