DAVID LUIZ: CLEVER CHELSEA

David Luiz cast his mind back a week as he considered the reasons for our victory v Tottenham,&specifically his role in it. The Brazilian was deployed in CM alongside N’Golo Kante&Tiemoue Bakayoko. It was his 1st selection in that role since his return to Stamford Bridge last summer,&he produced a great performance to help stifle Tottenham’s attacking intent.

‘I found out I was playing there at the beginning of the week,’ he revealed afterward. ‘The boss was trying to make the best plan to play this game,&then I was trying to do my job.’ And what was that?.
‘To run! I was running a lot. I had to cover the space of fantastic players like Eriksen&Dele Alli. ‘They always play very well between the lines so I was trying to close this gap&not leave space for them to create. I tried to do my best&it was good because we won in the end.’

That owed much to the resilience of the team who showed what Antonio Conte described as ‘great desire, great spirit, great will,&great heart.’ Not many had tipped the Blues to win before kick-off but that’s exactly what we did courtesy of Marcos Alonso’s 2goals.

‘The victory started in the 2nd half of the 1st game vs Burnley because we did great then,’ David Luiz said. ‘It’s important to show character after a defeat. We had a great mentality,&great character especially as we didn’t start the league very well last week. Playing against a fantastic team, fantastic players, we deserved to win.

‘It was a clever game. You need to understand when you play against a very good team, sometimes you can keep more of the ball but sometimes you need to try to surprise them on the counter-attack with one touch. I think we did great in a clever way.’

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