After scoring his first Premier League goal for Chelsea yesterday, Cesc Fabregas has spoken to our official website…
On the ‘tiki-taka’ witnessed…
‘I like to play this kind of football, and Eden and Oscar do as well, and the three of us connect very well and that goal showed well the qualities of the whole team,Â’ Fabregas said of his more recent success yesterday.
On the team…
‘Now I am playing deeper in midfield there will be moments during the season when maybe I go five or six games without a goal or an assist, and I am more proud about the team work, the discipline, the way we coped with the sending off, than my goals or my assists. I give those to other people to talk about.
‘We played a good second half when 10 against 10. We did have difficulties in the first few minutes but thankfully Oscar scored a fantastic goal and it helped us, and 10 against 10 is a different game and it was a solid performance.’
On the opposition’s tactics…
‘They were man-marking me, basically the whole first half following me, so it was difficult for me to get into positions with the ball,’ he said.
‘So I was trying to get my player away from the game and Oscar could come deep and have more time on the ball. It was difficult because of this reason but apart from that I think eighty per cent of the game was ours.
‘When it was 10 against 10 they changed system obviously and I had more space and more time.’
Cesc Fabregas has been an instant success at Chelsea, scoring one goal, creating twenty five chances and registering seven assists in the Premier League since he signed, days before the World Cup. He has quickly become a fan-favourite, especially after he rejected the chance to re-join our rivals and his former club Arsenal.
