Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino was happy with their 2-0 win against Sheffield United.
Cole Palmer and Nicolas Jackson scored on the day.
Pochettino said, “Relief, no. I am happy because the players deserve the victory and they work really well during the week. They react. I feel like I told you yesterday in my press conference, we already many things and of course it’s about to build our confidence.
“At the same time we need realise the things we need to change if we want to improve. Happy because three points are really important for us and then because on Tuesday we have a really important game against Newcastle, and arriving with this victory is completely different. Good feelings are really important and with the confidence that we can move through also and stay in the Carabao Cup.
“Because always you need to believe that it must be a really important result for us to try to make us to believe we can do things in a different way. We were talking a lot after Everton and think that we need a drastic change. I think it was important to now confirm that we were in a good way. Today, I think the team in the first half was a little bit frustrated because we didn’t find a way to break the low block of Sheffield United. At the same time the 11 players were committed with the team, chasing the opponent, trying to get the ball back as soon as possible and trying to not give the option to Sheffield United to create chances.
“In the second half I think we fixed different positions and we started to find better possibilities to circulate the ball and stretch the line, Jackson goes into the space. We were aggressive enough but we suffered lack of aggression in the first half because we made a mistake in the way we tried to penetrate but in the second half, with the things we changed, the team found better solutions.”
