It would be fair to say the
Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri is yet to eradicate memories of his side's
3-1 home defeat to Spurs in November.
I'm not surprised, to be honest. They were given a bit of a chasing. Asked about tactics for tomorrow night, Sarri instead suggested his team must first match the desire of their opponents.
He said: "We need to approach the match in another way because they were more aggressive than us and more determined than us. So we know very well if the approach is the same there is no solution for us.
"We can speak about tactics but only if we are at the same level of application and determination. In that match we needed to play more outside than inside because the space was there, and we understood that later."
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Pedro, Willian and
Olivier Giroud are doing better but I don't know if they will be able to play tomorrow. Maybe not for 90 minutes.
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Ruben Loftus-Cheek is out. We need to understand the situation with his back because in the last month he was in trouble."I have no news about Cesc," he said. "I don’t know if he is able to play tomorrow because in the last match he had cramp in the calf so he needs to rest I think. I don’t know the situation, we will have to see today's training. "