Chelsea vs Bournemouth: Conte speaks on catching up with Manchester City
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- Oct 29, 2017
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Chelsea manager, Antonio Conte, has admitted that his team must be “realistic” about catching up with Premier League leaders, Manchester City, after their 1-0 win at Bournemouth on Saturday.
Hazard scored the only goal of the game in the 51st minute, to give the champions all three points at the Vitality Stadium.
However, they remain nine points behind rampant leaders Manchester City after 10 matches.
City have won 13 of 15 games in all competitions this season, scoring 45 goals, while Chelsea have already lost three times.
“At this moment we must be realistic by going game by game,” Conte said.
“We have 19 points and we deserve to have 19 points. We are first in our group in the Champions League. We went into the next round of the Carabao Cup after going out in the second round last season.
“This group [of players]… I’m very happy for this group. There are players who are very honest, players who want to fight until the end for something important. Are we able to do this? I don’t know. But we will try to stay there.
“I know very well that in England, in this league, there are six top teams. Four go into the Champions League. Two have to stay out and play Europa League. Last season we saw this. It was very, very, very difficult.”
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