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Chelsea ‘want to win so much’, but sabotage own efforts once again

“[The red card] changes your plans in and out of possession and what you want to do. [In] the first 20 minutes, we were really aggressive on the press, really embracing man-for-man presses, man-for-man structures. We nicked it three or four times in the first 20 minutes. That changes. You can’t really press like that with 10 men. We had to be a little bit more compact, defend, fight, defend our box and wait for moments.

“I thought we did that really well. I thought we had a lot of moments in the second half where we scored the goal, where we could have scored the goal. I thought we defended our box really well, other than, to be fair, a really high-level bit of quality from Harry Wilson to win the game. That was the message at half-time. We’re going to have to fight. We’re going to have to dig in. The game plan is different, but let’s embrace that.

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