„Watford“ coach Quique Sanchez Flores is confident that his team is ready to compete against Guus Hiddink's coached „Chelsea“ team and all the innovations that opponents can offer in Saturday's match.
The Spaniard knows that it will be difficult to predict how the „Blues“ will look after Jose Mourinho's departure, and the team's helm was taken over by Hiddink, for whom this will be the first match of the season at the helm of „Chelsea“. However, despite anticipating tough matches, Flores believes his players are ready for the challenge.
„Of course, when a club changes coach, players try to show their good qualities to the new coach. We are ready for this challenge and we know that they will be a very strong team. We expect tough matches, as they are experienced and demonstrate quality play,“ Flores said before the game.
The coach also emphasized that before these matches, taking into account the change of opponents' coaches, he had to change the system by which opponents are analyzed.
„Normally we analyze the last three matches, but after a coaching change, it is not useful to analyze the matches of the previous strategist. It is not important for us to know how „Chelsea“ played under Mourinho, it is most important how the game changed against „Sunderland“. We can only analyze these matches,“ he said.
„We know that we are in good shape, but there are no players in the team who would be surprised by that. I am very happy with this attitude and strong team mentality,“ the coach said about the upcoming match.
The match between „Chelsea“ and „Watford“ is today at 17:00.
