Cucurella: After studying Sunderland's throw-in strategy, we may have been a little lax

6686 Sports, October 26th, Chelsea lost 1-2 to Sunderland at home in this Premier League match. Cucurella said in an interview after the game that the team needs to learn lessons from the defeat.

About the competition results

Cucurella: This is an unacceptable result. Of course we are all very disappointed. We need to improve in this type of competition and we need to delve into better control of the competition.

We scored early and controlled the situation at that stage, but then we allowed our opponents to regain the rhythm of the game. We need to learn to kill the suspense of the game when we have the upper hand. After scoring the first goal we should have scored the second when we had the chance and we need to do better against a compact team like Sunderland.

It's still early days, which is a good thing. We can still improve in many competitions. We still have a lot of time to improve and compete for more points.

About conceding the ball

Cucurella: As for the team conceding the ball, we know that we can better deal with such a situation. We know that many teams will choose to use the strategy of throwing hard from the sideline.

We studied it the day before the game because we knew very well that Sunderland were going to use a strong throw-out strategy and be very direct in their set-piece attacks, and I felt we might have been a little slack and they punished us. This is no excuse, we need to learn from this and ensure this does not happen again.

Then the second goal was conceded. We still felt that we should have defended better. We really always wanted to win, especially at home, but we were caught by our opponents on the counterattack and were punished by Sunderland. These are small mistakes, but we need to learn from them.

You can always correct things quickly in football, which is the good thing, and we have our next game on Wednesday, which is an opportunity for us to get back into the winning streak.