In his press conference after a 2-0 win over Blackburn, Mauricio Pochettino joked that it had been “like a preseason game.”
What he meant by that was that the objective had been as much about putting minute in the legs of his recovering players as it had been winning.
Reece James and Benoit Badiashile were the new returnees looking to warm up for league action, and both got a good hour before being taken off and wrapped in cotton wool for a potential return on Monday night against Tottenham in the Premier League.
You can see the Chelsea coach speaking in the clip embedded here:
