Marc Cucurella believes that Chelsea must be more “patient with the ball” after their defeat against Flamengo in the club World Cup.
Chelsea lost 3-1 to the Brazilian side despite the fact that he took the lead by Pedro Neto. Bruno Henrique scored and assisted another before Wallace Yan completed the victory, while Nicolas Jackson was sent away when the blues ended with 10 men.
The side of Enzo Maresca is now in second place in group D, behind Flamengo, which means that they will probably come across Bayern Munich if they are eligible for the next round.
Chelsea had 48.5% in the game, because Cucurella said that the champions of the Conference League wanted to play directly in this game, something that may have to change in their last group game.
“We can have the ball more,” Cucurella told Dazn.
“It is true that we tried to play more immediately and not had enough patience with the ball. That is something that we can improve a lot. Now we have time to see the clips of the things we can do better in the next game.
“For the majority we have checked the game well. When we gave the first goal, I think they had this good feeling because their fans started to get loud, and immediately afterwards we admitted the second. This is something that we have to improve.
“We have to control the game more, suffer at times, but the most important thing is that we still have a game and when we win, we will continue and that's it.”
Flamengo's 3-1 victory over Chelsea is the second time that a South American team has defeated a European team with several goals at the Club World Cup (all formats) after the 3-1 victory of Vasco da Gama on Manchester United in 2000.
And former Chelsea and Arsenal -midfielder Jorginho believed that it was their confidence in the Filipe Luis game plan that gave them the victory.
Jorginho said: “Before the game and what it was like, we played good football and we really did well on the field.
“When we had to wait, we waited. When we had to press, we put them in trouble. We worked a lot on how we could hurt them. We believe in what we do and we all push together.
“We were really confident and we know in these big games that the details make the difference. In general we were really good in the first half, so we said,” Let's keep pushing. “
“We pushed in the first half and it worked, so we knew we had to do more in the second half, and that is what we did. We found the small places that could harm them.”
The last group match of Chelsea is against Es Tunis, while Flamengo is confronted with Los Angeles FC, with both games on 24 June.