Mauricio Pochettino insists his faltering Chelsea side are still a work in progress ahead of Saturday's clash with Sheffield United
1 year, 3 months ago

Mauricio Pochettino insists his faltering Chelsea side are still a work in progress ahead of Saturday's clash with Sheffield United

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'There's no bigger waste of time!' It's All Kicking Off Chelsea have managed just one win from their last five Premier League games Mauricio Pochettino likened the Chelsea job to trying to build a new house without solid foundations and a roof, a task he also admits comes with risk. Struggling and inconsistent Chelsea, defeated in three of their last four, have been ravaged by injury this season hampering Pochettino’s attempts to settle into his new Stamford Bridge home. And three more big setbacks for captain Reece James, goalkeeper Robert Sanchez and Marc Cucurella at Everton last week left Pochettino saying: ‘We have a lot of injury issues and it's like building a house and some of the stuff are not there but we need to keep believing. Unfortunately we received too many hits against us.’ Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino likened his young side to a house without solid foundations Chelsea's injury issues have been compounded by Reece James' recent hamstring injury Your browser does not support iframes.

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