Every word from a disappointed Mauricio Pochettino after he saw his Chelsea side fall to defeat at the hands of West Ham United for the first time since he was appointed as head coach
Can you sum up that game for us? Is there a mentality issue?
"I don't believe we can call it a mentality thing. I think today the result doesn't reflect the performance. In football, we need to accept that these kind of situations happen. I think the first-half was really good.
"Only disappointed and the players are really disappointed in the way we conceded the first goal because we start the game knowing West Ham are so, so dangerous in set-pieces, corners. We conceded a few corners and then we conceded the goal. That is a little bit disappointing.
"I was really upset at half-time about that. I think the players will agree and feel the same and then I think also we did really well in the first-half. We should be winning the game at half-time.
There's going to be a lot of focus on Moises. Did that reflect not having a pre-season? How do you pick him up after that?
"We took the decision that we would play with him in the last 30 minutes because he is ready to play 30 minutes but maybe he wasn't ready to play from the beginning, but 30 minutes yes. He did well, some very positive things. Okay, in the last minute we concede a goal but we cannot say nothing wrong.
"It was positive but we [all] feel disappointed because we deserve more. But in the end we didn't get the result we wanted."
You've got a very young team, and today you were up against a very physical team in an emotional game. Do you think that had an impact on the players?
"No, I don't believe so. If we had scored the penalty we missed then we go into half-time at 2-1 and for sure the
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