Mauricio Pochettino spoke to the media at Cobham ahead of Chelsea's FA Cup semi-final with Manchester City on Saturday evening.
The Blues are at Wembley Stadium for the second time this season as they take on Man City, the holders of the FA Cup, in the last four of the competition. After beating Everton convincingly on Monday night, Chelsea should come into the match full of confidence.
However, in City, there is a much bigger challenge at stake for Chelsea – and on a larger stage. Prior to a game of such magnitude, the press room is always a bit busier at Cobham.
So, predictably, Pochettino had plenty of questions to face as he looked ahead to Saturday evening's semi-final. Below, you can read every word the Argentine had to say.
Have you spoken to your players again since the penalty incident?
“I think we were talking a lot on Monday, and Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, today, we were practicing penalties. Again it’s clear. We made it clear after the game, we had a meeting between the players and staff, and the sporting directors, Paul [Winstanley] and Laurence [Stewart] were there also.
«I explained my feelings and the way we are going to act in the future if something like this happens again. It was really clear, the message, the message afterwards I tried to translate to you in the media.
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»Now we need to move on. It’s about to be clever – they are clever and understood the situation. In some points, it was an image that you don’t like but in another point, it is good if the player wants to take the responsibility and to take the
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