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Mauricio Pochettino admits midfield duo Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo need to improve after Chelsea\u2019s poor start to the Premier League campaign.<\/p>\n
The Blues\u2019 midweek 2-1 defeat at Manchester United kept them in 10th place, five points behind West Ham in ninth.<\/p>\n
And Pochettino believes big-money signings Fernandez and Caicedo need to up their levels but acknowledged the two 22-year-olds\u2019 development is a \u201cprocess\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of Chelsea\u2019s Premier League clash with Everton on Sunday, he said: \u201cThe relationship between them needs to improve of course, between them and individually also.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are young, the expectation is massive when you arrive.<\/p>\n
\u201cCaicedo had one season in Brighton and Enzo after three months in Europe, he was in Benfica before arriving to the Premier League. Arriving not in the best place to perform quick because they need to be part of the solution.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are not the cherry of the cake. When you arrive in a team that is in a building process and you\u2019re young with not too much experience, even if you have good quality and people can see the club paid big money and only for that you need to perform, it is not like this in football.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people think in this way because they don\u2019t know about football. It\u2019s a process.<\/p>\n
The relationship between them needs to improve of course between them and individually also.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a process for different reasons. Chelsea are in a completely different reality in the last years and we need to attack this. We can\u2019t live only thinking in the past.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to keep the culture and understand we are in Chelsea and always it\u2019s about winning, but the reality is completely different.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s opponents Everton are on a high after Wednesday\u2019s 3-0 victory over Newcastle at Goodison Park.<\/p>\n
And Pochettino identified Everton\u2019s physical presence from set-pieces and called for his Chelsea players to play more cleverly.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIt can be a problem, yes. But we need to be more aggressive and try to avoid conceding chances like corners or wide free-kicks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to be clever in the way we are going to work and try to stop them.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, it can be a problem but maybe no. In football, it\u2019s the way you approach the game, the attitude and then being clever, trying to avoid giving the possibility to the opponents to use their strengths.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pochettino highlighted the challenges of keeping his players motivated after their inconsistent start to the campaign.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWhen you win it is easy, you jump to train.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut when you have ups and downs it is really difficult to keep your balance because to translate the capacity to a player to keep pushing and assimilate and to keep the good mood around the training ground is the most difficult thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause the frustration, disappointment, sometimes in the way we concede, you become upset, angry. \u201c<\/p>\n