Patrick Vieira Names Two Areas Crystal Palace Must Improve to Beat Chelsea This Weekend
Patrick Vieira Names Two Areas Crystal Palace Must Improve to Beat Chelsea This Weekend
Crystal Palace will hope to be better when they host the Blues this weekend at Stamford Bridge.
Newera News learnt that Crystal Palace manager Patrick Vieira says it will be one of the best games in his managerial career if his side can beat European and World Champions Chelsea.
The Blues will make the short trip to Selhurst in search of three points that will tighten their grip on third place and heighten the pressure on second-place Liverpool who take on Norwich this weekend.
South London side Crystal Palace were given a baptism of fire when they last met Chelsea on the opening day of the season.
At that time there were fears that Vieira could be sacked given how poor his side were on that bright summer day, but Palace have since improved and are sitting 13th on the league table above teams like Newcastle, Leeds and Brentford.
The former Arsenal man told the press ahead of the game: “ I think that the team and myself have all grown from that first game.
“I think that we all have a better understanding of what I want and the parts that we have to improve in parts of our game.
“That day against Chelsea, it was the first goal that changed the momentum of the game and it came at a critical moment.
“It’s about when are in a good period how we can take advantage and score those goals and when we are in a difficult period of the game how can we defend well together.
“So for me the game tomorrow we will be in a much better situation than we were back in August, but we are playing against the World Champions and the team who won the Champions League so it’s going to be a massive challenge for us.
“But again it’s really very exciting and we are looking forward to it and we will give ourselves the best chance to get the results we want.”