Chelsea assistant coach Jesus Perez played a key role in the Blues’ 3-2 win against Nottingham Forest, according to Cole Palmer.
While Chelsea were able to take the lead early in the game through Mykhailo Mudryk, they did not have the best first half.
The Ukrainian’s goal was cancelled out by Willy Boly about eight minutes later and Mauricio Pochettino‘s men were unable to go back in front before the half-time whistle.
Things actually got worse for them in the second half when former winger Callum Hudson-Odoi got his name on the scoresheet.
However, tweaks that Pochettino made and Perez’s words at half-time eventually worked, claims Palmer.
What Jesus Perez said to Cole Palmer and his Chelsea teammates at half-time
After a flat first half, Palmer says the team knew that they needed to move the ball a bit faster.
The attacker has also revealed that Perez told them that they were losing too many duels and needed to address that in the second 45 minutes.
“The first-half was a bit flat and we needed to move the ball a bit faster,” Palmer was quoted as saying by Chelsea’s official website.
“The manager tweaked a few things at half-time which helped because we were losing a lot of duels and Jesus [Perez] told us to sort that out.”
Jesus Perez and Mauricio Pochettino could both leave Chelsea at the end of the season
Pochettino, Perez and the rest of the Argentine’s coaching staff have done really well at late.
Chelsea have managed to turn things around a bit at this late part of the season, now sitting level on points with sixth-placed Newcastle United.
Nevertheless, with the club missing out on Champions League football and Pochettino only having a year left to run on his contract, it is obviously not impossible that Pochettino and Perez are dismissed when the campaign concludes.
Pochettino’s future has really dominated the headlines recently. It is something that the former Paris Saint-Germain manager has even spoken about publicly.
