Chelsea head coach Maurizio Sarri refuses to change his tactical methods until his players are fully adapted.<\/p>\n
The Blues boss has stubbornly stuck with a 4-3-3 formation, with creative midfielder Jorginho at its heart, despite the club’s recent poor form.<\/p>\n
World Cup winner N’Golo Kante has been deployed on the right side of midfield, in a more attacking role than the one to which he is accustomed, to accommodate Jorginho, who followed Sarri from Napoli to Stamford Bridge last July.<\/p>\n
“We are not ready to change at the moment,” said Sarri, speaking ahead of Saturday’s Premier League clash at Arsenal, which is live on talkSPORT.<\/p>\n
“I can change when we are at 100 per cent in what I want to see. If in 4-3-3 we are at the top, we can try to change.<\/p>\n
“Like in Naples last season, when we played in the last period also in 4-2-3-1. But not at the moment. We are not ready.”<\/p>\n
Sarri refused to say how close his team are to being ready, referring to the chaotic fixture schedule in English football which limits preparation periods.<\/p>\n
“It’s not easy in this situation to improve a lot in such little time,” he added.<\/p>\n
Sarri said Jorginho was “in trouble” in last week’s win over Newcastle and would have been replaced had Cesc Fabregas not left for Monaco.<\/p>\n
Chelsea are still to recruit a new specialist in the position, with Zenit St Petersburg’s Leandro Paredes linked.<\/p>\n
Jorginho has registered more passes – with 1,997 – than any other player in the Premier League this season and Sarri put his performance against the Magpies down to fatigue.<\/p>\n
The 60-year-old Italian said: “Maybe in the last two matches he was a little bit tired.<\/p>\n
“He moved the ball a little bit (more) slowly than before. But I think that it’s normal.<\/p>\n
“You cannot stay at the top for 60 matches, so it’s normal to have a different period, a period when you are not so lucid as usual. But it’s not a big problem.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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