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Mario Melchiot

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ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

No, no.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

No.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

No, I never experienced it because, you know, like, but I think, you know, look, the situation for me when I looked at it, when I looked at the game, I think that, I think Robert mentioned that, I think something else must have happened before because they look very heated.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

prior to whatever happened in the situation, regardless if you make it because mistakes happen in the game.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

But one of the things is, well, like, you know, like, Greg, maybe you don't agree with it, but I don't agree with someone just grabbing me and just shoving me away.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

No, I don't care.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

It doesn't matter.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

It never happened to me in my career.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

So that's why I said it, because I would not allow someone just randomly do that to me.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

Yeah, but you know, when you play a team like that, turns up at your ground, you understand, and you have a chance to get fourth, you've got to turn up totally different.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

I think the way they played it, I think, OK, they sit down, they defend, they wait, but there were moments even in the second half, there was a moment in the second half, Everton kept passing the ball around, and then winning the second ball again?

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

I was like, wow, do you want to win the game or you just want to give it up?

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

And then he tries, you understand, every time his teams get stretched, they get a problem.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

Because he knows that in the middle of the park, if they open up and they stretch the team open, the guys in the middle cannot keep up with whatever is facing them.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

And he did it again.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

And that's why I felt like sometimes, you know, Casemiro and Fernandes, because Casemiro wants to, he's more the attacking one of the two.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

And then Casemiro, the ground that he has to cover,

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

is bigger than when he was at the top of his career.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

So when that happens to him, they look exposed.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

And I think that was definitely, you know, one of the relevant things that was happening.