Zola Tells Morata To Deal With Chelsea Pressure
By Joshua Walters
Chelsea’s deputy manager Gianfranco Zola has advised Alvaro Morata to be resilient and cope with the pressure on him at the club.
Morata has been struggling for form this season leading to the fans exerting pressure on the striker with some quarters questioning his quality and existence in the club.
Alvaro Morata has played 16 Premier League games for the Blues this season and scored five goals while having two goals in four appearances in the Europa League.
The 26-year-old was signed from Real Madrid for a fee of around £60 million to replace his countryman and goal-poacher Diego Costa who was leaving the club for Atletico Madrid, and Zola insists the former must welcome the high demands on him and work hard to meet them.
"It should be a motivational thing,"
"You are at Chelsea, you are not playing for Southampton or Brighton with all due respect to those clubs.”
"People expect a lot from the number nine at Chelsea. They expect a lot of goals and good performances. This is normal, he has to get used to it.”
"If he goes to another big club it'll be the same - there is no way you can avoid your responsibilities.
"It's part of your job and if you can handle that then the better you're going to be."
"Technically Morata - and this is the reason we invested a lot in him this year - we thought he was the perfect number nine for us.”
"Maurizio [Sarri] has always said that. Technically without a doubt, he is one of the best in this position."
"I think he has to improve a little bit tactically because nowadays with the type of football, football is so organised you need to get better tactically, your ability is not enough.”
"In my opinion, he needs to improve on this. He's been working on that, he has a good attitude. He feels that he doesn't score enough and he feels a lot of responsibilities for that.”
"But he has to learn to put everything behind because these are only burdened that you take on the pitch and they don't help you to perform better."
