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When Chelsea played against Luton and won, the fans of the club were happy that Chelsea were showing signs of improvement, and signs to do better this season, but now they have played a stronger and more threatening team, and we have seen that they have not really improved from last season. Chelsea still lack the ability to recover from games from behind once they are scored. Pochetino has no excuse as to why Chelsea lost because he has very good players at his disposal. In a few more games, If Chelsea continue with this unimpressive performance, many Chelsea fans may start demanding that he be sacked and replaced.
In fact, Chelsea was able to dominate the match compared to Nottingham, but Chelsea had difficulty breaking into Nottingham's goal. Lack of player creativity is the first reason, but a lack of consistent strategy is also a reason. I didn't find Nottingham playing well except being really good defensively which combined with taking chances, it won them the game even though it was completely unexpected.
The bottom team uses a defensive strategy to win points against the top team. The weakness of Pochettino's strategy is that he was able to find a solution to find the net even though they had a lot of shots in total. Poor finishing is also an excuse, but of course Pochettino is under pressure at the moment.
Looking at the formation used by Pochettino, it is the same as Nottingham with a 3-4-2-1 formation, Pochettino as Chelsea coach should be able to read the strategy used by his opposing club but it is a shame that Pochettino and the Chelsea players are too focused on just scoring scores with big ambitions that they forget.
The important thing about defensive strategy is not to concede like what Nottingham did in today's match and I see that Pochettino as a coach cannot read the opponent's opportunities or strategies so this coach has difficulty scoring and for Nottingham this is actually like a lucky goal when the players from Elanga defensive line was caught off guard and took the opportunity to score and actually Chelsea could have done the same thing but it came back to the coach who gave a bad strategy that was too focused on the attack line.
I admired Nottingham in this match even though I am not a fan of this club but Nottingham deserves praise for being able to beat Chelsea as the host and Steve Cooper as the coach of this club is also very smart in giving the right direction to his players.