Chelsea suffered yet another defeat at the hands of Manchester United, this time losing 2-0 at home in the Premier League. And this loss means their lead at the fourth spot has come down to just one point.
This was their third meeting with Man United this season and so far Lampard’s men have lost each and every game despite being the better side in these outings.
And according to Mateo Kovacic, despite playing in good football, the failure to score goals have really hurt the Blues and their results vs Solskjaer’s men.
But while speaking about the loss, the Chelsea midfielder also laid out the importance of their upcoming game vs Spurs which could play a very crucial role in determining their European future for the next campaign.
“We played well in the beginning but it’s always the same against United; we play good, we create chances, we don’t score and then they score from one opportunity,” Kovacic said via The Independent.
“We don’t have the three points and that’s the most important thing. It was a good game from us, we played well, like we have for more or less the whole season, but we made some silly mistakes and we lost the points.
“We are still a very young team and we need to improve a lot. Now we will see if we are a great team because we have some tough matches to fight for the fourth position and we need to show ourselves.
“We need to improve a lot because we have tough games ahead of us and we have to be focused. We have to train hard every day, to prepare our games better and try to avoid our mistakes because we are making too many mistakes in these kinds of matches and you get punished.
“We have a good week ahead of us to prepare for Tottenham and to play a good match. We know this match means a lot for us because Tottenham are close behind us so we need to prepare ourselves quite a lot to win this game at home.
“We are still fourth so we are still in a good position, but we need to wake up because they are coming from behind. We need to play these next games like we were playing at the beginning of the season and change some things as well, obviously.”
Chelsea overall have played pretty decent football under their new manager this season but clearly their inability to sign players in the summer is causing major issues right now.
While they have the chance of bringing in reinforcements last month but the club failed to make any new signings which many believe could be the reason behind Chelsea’s failure to qualify for the top-tier of Europe.
