Former Chelsea player impressed by how Blues made Tottenham “confused” on Saturday | OneFootball

One former Chelsea player has been left how The Blues made Tottenham ‘confused’ in their game on Saturday night.

Chelsea beat their London rivals 1-0 away from home on Saturday in the Premier League, and it was a very easy game for Chelsea.

EXCLUSIVE! When Cole Palmer is expected to return to the Chelsea squad – plans laid out!

Tottenham offered nothing at all, but Chelsea played very well and really should have scored about four goals in the end – if not for some poor misses and good goalkeeping in the sticks for Spurs.

Former Chelsea midfielder who also played for Spurs, Gus Poyet, was watching the game and has been on hand to review it.

Poyet on the game

Poyet told Football365: “Obviously, we were all expecting more from Spurs. I think sometimes, when you get to this kind of derby… I don’t pay too much attention to how the teams arrive to this game. You know how they come from the previous game, because it’s unique. So I was expecting, let’s say, a more competitive, more equal game.

“I think Chelsea players, they are playing at the moment, like the style and the way they want to play. Spurs looked to me like they were a little bit confused, and it was difficult to get into the pace of the game, like they were never in the rhythm. Then when the best player in Spurs is probably the goalkeeper, that tells you everything about it.

When asked why they were confused, Poyet said: “I think the team, more or less, is the team that we were expecting. It’s just that I think Spurs are in a process of change. I don’t forget how Ange was playing in the beginning, with that incredible high line, and it was crazy. There were 3, 4, 5, 6 goals. I said at the beginning of that season, if you want to see goals, go watch Spurs. Winning or losing is another matter.”

“So any other manager coming after that, it will be a process. Obviously. I don’t think that the squad of Spurs has too much in common with the squad of Brentford. Completely different the style of a player. So there is a little bit of adaptation both ways, from the coach to the players and the players to the coach. And I think that’s been the season so far.

“There have been games like Paris Saint-Germain, you go ‘wow’ and then the next game, you go, ‘what happened?’ Up and down because of that new way of playing. But then it’s a derby and the derbies, they are there to be won because it has nothing to do with their identity. They have nothing to do with a change of coach. It’s just a matter of the players going in there and performing.

“It didn’t look like Tottenham was playing a derby properly. They were just in between. Do we attack? Do we defend? We keep the ball? Do we play long? We work for a corner, for a throw-in. It was like a little bit of everything, and at the end, it was nothing. So bad day and the bad day is clear when the game finished and everything that happened after the game, which shows that it was a really big frustration in that stadium.”