Azpilicueta: Chelsea will reply to ‘broad setback’

Cesar Azpilicueta believes Chelsea will recuperate from a poor depart of invent that has intensified hypothesis concerning the attain forward for Antonio Conte.

A Four-1 thumping at Watford on Monday, wherein Tiemoue Bakayoko used to be despatched off inside of half an hour, adopted a 3-0 home defeat at the fingers of Bournemouth.

Chelsea had been overwhelmed in the EFL Cup semi-supreme by Arsenal closing month and beget ideal won one among their closing five Premier League suits, the champions now sitting some extent above fifth-placed Tottenham in the battle for Champions League qualification.

Despite the pressure intensifying on Conte, Azpilicueta backed Chelsea to refocus ahead of a Champions League closing-sixteen conflict with Barcelona, the first leg of which is at Stamford Bridge on February 20.

« We are Chelsea, an limitless membership – and after we lose one sport it is a plod time for us, » Azpilicueta advisable the membership’s official web sites after a humbling defeat at Vicarage Avenue – Chelsea’s first loss to Watford in any competition since 1999.

« Obviously to lose two in a row is even worse but I’m sure this team will fight again. Now we beget three targets to transfer for and we now beget a broad three or Four months ahead of us. »

Antonio Conte says he has broad disappointment as our performance used to be very poor. He says we started very badly and played with danger which is something we do no longer most frequently enact. #WATCHE

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Chelsea temporarily regarded on computer screen to flee from Watford with some extent despite a substandard performance, Eden Hazard hauling the ten males level with a sparkling compose.

But slow targets from Daryl Janmaat, Gerard Deulofeu – who won the penalty reworked by Troy Deeney for Watford’s opener – and Roberto Pereyra secured victory for the Hornets.

« I contemplate when Eden scored the ambition in the team, and the feeling we had on the pitch, used to be that shall we procure the win, despite the indisputable reality that we had been a man down, » mentioned Azpilicueta.

« We started the second half with a factual spirit, attempting to procure the target, and after we did it I thought the team had been able to getting the three factors.

« For sure it is very subtle to win, we beget had two heavy defeats and clearly we’re in level of reality disenchanted. It be a broad setback for us.

« In opposition to Bournemouth, in quarter-hour we conceded three targets and in that period after we’re plod we now beget to are trying and administer and plod thru the time in the ideal attain that you just have to maybe perhaps be agree with. »