Chelsea Fans Need To Trust Me

Mauricio Pochettino mentioned Chelsea supporters don’t must belief him, however ought to “trust the club” after being on the receiving finish of unfavorable chants throughout the victory over Leicester within the FA Cup.

The dwelling supporters booed the choice to substitute Mykhailo Mudryk as an alternative of ahead Raheem Sterling within the 78th minute, with some followers chanting “you don’t know what you’re doing”.

Sterling had missed a penalty and one other good likelihood within the first half, then blazed a free-kick wildly over within the second earlier than Chelsea went on to win 4-2 and attain the semi-finals.

“We need to accept the situation,” Pochettino mentioned of the followers’ criticism.

“It’s like when I attempt to clarify the state of affairs of the squad, perhaps I would like to elucidate additionally [to] the followers. We want to simply accept it.

“That does not mean we agree or not agree but we need to accept.”

“The fans in football live on expectation and always wanting the best for the club and the player,” added Pochettino.

“When you don’t match the expectation, that’s the tough factor for our followers to grasp. I talked prior to now, I’m sturdy, I’ve no drawback. We are going to maintain transferring in the identical course.

“I hope within the subsequent recreation that the followers are all the time unconditional behind the group as a result of we’re representing Chelsea.

“We are in a course of the place we need to make our followers completely happy and we’re going to attempt. I hope we will create that from now till the tip of the season, we will create a great reference to the followers.

“I don’t ask that they belief me, they should belief within the membership, as a result of on the finish if I’m right here that’s due to the choice of the membership.

“It is not to trust in me or to trust in the players, it is to trust the club, that the club is doing or thinks is good for the club. It is about to trust in everyone not only me.”