Chelsea are hurting right now, and two of their last 2 games have seen awful performances that need to be wiped clean immediately. What they need urgently is a soft fixture against a team that’s not too motivated. Sadly, they have the opposite.
Sunday’s match sees them go to Goodison Park to play an Everton team who are in great form and raging against their ten point deduction. It’s one of the worst fixtures we could have right now, in reality.
Mauricio Pochettino is well aware of that, and in his presser today he explained that because the feeling on Merseyside is that it’s “so unfair” how the Toffees have been treated by the Premier League, it’s going to be a terrible time to go there.
You can see the manager speaking in the clip embedded here, with these quotes coming after 5 minutes: