2022年12月31日 星期六

Graham Potter:Mateo Kovacic 和 Hakim Ziyech 回歸、情況艱難但人們不想聽藉口、Denis Zakaria 的努力贏得回報

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Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea press conference: Potter names players returning

30 DEC 2022


Graham Potter has confirmed Mateo Kovacic and Hakim Ziyech will return to the Chelsea squad for the Premier League visit to Nottingham Forest on New Year’s Day.

波特已經確認科瓦契奇和齊耶奇將會回到卻爾西大名單中,參加明年元旦客場挑戰諾丁漢森林的比賽。

The two players were last in action on 17 December when the World Cup’s third-fourth place match was decided in Croatia’s favour, although the tournament was an undoubted success for Ziyech’s Morocco too as they made history for an African side.

這兩名球員最後一次參加比賽是在 12 月 17 日,當時克羅埃西亞在世界盃季軍戰中獲勝。對齊耶奇的摩洛哥來說,這屆世界盃毫無疑問是成功的,他們為非洲球隊創造了歷史。

Following a short post-Qatar break, Kovacic and Ziyech have been in training at Cobham this week.

經過卡達後的短暫休息,科瓦契奇和齊耶奇本週在科本進行了訓練。


‘Both of those guys will be back,’ reported Potter, although he had less certain news on another World Cup player due to an issue in his upper-body area.

“這兩個球員都將回歸,” 波特說,但他對另一名世界盃球員的消息不太確定,他的身體出現了問題。

‘Mendy we're not sure, we’ll see how he is over the next few days. He has a problem with a bone that he picked up at the World Cup and needed a little bit of time.’

“我們不確定門迪是否能上,我們會在接下來的幾天裡看看他的情況。他的一根骨頭有問題,是在世界盃上受的傷,需要一點時間休息。”

Speaking more generally about the injury count, added to by Reece James’s problem in our most recent game, Potter thought back to the match before the Premier League was paused for the World Cup, when we played up in Newcastle.

說到傷病人數,再加上里斯.詹姆士在上一場比賽中受傷,波特回想起了英超因世界盃而暫停之前的那場比賽,當時我們對陣紐卡索。


‘We had no Kepa, no Reece, no Wesley, no Ben Chilwell, no N’Golo Kante, no Raheem Sterling. We lost Marc Cucurella overnight with illness. We lost Ruben Loftus-Cheek after a few minutes, we lost Azpi after some more minutes, and that was just the period we were in, and we’ve still got quite a few guys available.

“當時我們沒有凱帕、沒有詹姆士、沒有佛法納、沒有奇爾維爾、沒有坎特、沒有斯特林。庫庫雷利亞一夜之間生病了,開賽幾分鐘後我們失去了洛夫圖斯奇克,再幾分鐘後我們失去了阿斯皮利奎塔,那是我們在那段時間的處境,而我們仍然還有人可以上場。”

‘That's the challenge of the multiple competitions, the multiple games in a short space of time with the World Cup coming up. It sounds like I'm making excuses. I'm not, I'm just telling you what I think the situation is and we have to deal with it.

“這就是多線作戰的挑戰,在世界盃即將到來的短時間內多線作戰。聽起來是我在找藉口,但我沒有,我只是告訴你們我對當時情況的看法,我們必須要處理這個問題。”

‘The break hasn't been a positive one for us. I could have made lots of excuses if the Bournemouth result hadn't gone our way because we had four players for the first two weeks and then them dripping back in.

“這次休息對我們來說並不是積極的。如果對伯恩茅斯的比賽結果不盡如人意,我可以找很多藉口,因為頭兩週我們只有四名球員,然後其他人才陸續回來。”

'The break that you think you have to work with the team, it's not there because you haven’t got the players. But you can’t make those excuses, you’ve just got to win and we did against Bournemouth so that was good.’

“你們認為的休息,和球隊磨合的時間並不存在,因為根本沒有球員,但我們不能找這些藉口,我們必須贏得比賽,我們在對陣伯恩茅斯的比賽中做到了,這很好。”

Potter highlights that the job now is to get as many players back on the pitch as we can, adding:

波特強調,現在的工作是讓盡可能多的球員回到球場上,他補充道:

‘It's been a real tough period, as challenging as it has been in my time as a coach, but we're at Chelsea and people don't want to hear those reasons/excuses. You've got to get on with it, and we've got to try our best to find the answers.’

“這是一段非常艱難的時期,就像我身為教練時一樣有挑戰性,但我們是在卻爾西,人們不想聽到這些理由和藉口。我們必須堅持下去,我們必須盡最大努力找到答案。”

Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea injury list:

N'Golo Kante and Armando Broja are Chelsea's long-term absentees. Morgan Gibbs-White is an injury doubt for Nottingham Forest, as is Jesse Lingard. Omar Richards, Cheikhou Kouyate and Moussa Niakhate are out long-term.

坎特和布羅亞是卻爾西長期缺陣的球員。諾丁漢森林的吉布斯懷特和林加德都有可能傷停,理查茲、庫亞特和尼亞哈特則是長期缺席。

Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea suspension:

There are no suspensions for this game. In the Premier League, five yellow cards received before 19 league fixtures (Crystal Palace at home on 15 January) have been played will result in a one-match suspension in the competition.

Premier League booking list:

Havertz 3, James 3, Jorginho 3, R Sterling 3, Azpilicueta 2, Cucurella 2, Koulibaly 2, Kovacic 2, Mount 2, Aubameyang 1, Chalobah 1, Chilwell 1, Gallagher 1, Loftus-Cheek 1, Mendy 1, Pulisic 1, Thiago Silva 1

Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea referee and VAR:

Referee: Peter Bankes
VAR: Andre Marriner

Peter Bankes will referee Chelsea for the first time this season. His most recent Blues game was at Stamford Bridge against Wolves in May.

彼得.班克斯本賽季將首次擔任卻爾西裁判,他最近吹罰藍軍的比賽是五月在斯坦福橋對陣狼隊。

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Potter's verdict on Zakaria

30 DEC 2022


Denis Zakaria was handed his Premier League debut this week and the man who named him in the starting side against Bournemouth has spoken about the on-loan midfielder.

Graham Potter had previously selected the 26-year-old in our final group-stage match in the Champions League and then in the Carabao Cup at Manchester City. Zakaria then went away to the World Cup with Switzerland but after returning, Potter had no qualms about including him when the league matches began again this week. The player impressed.

‘Whenever Denis has played he has not let us down,’ states Potter. ‘Playing in the Champions League against Zagreb, he scored and he showed his quality.


‘He's had to be patient. We had some good options in midfield and you have to remember, we didn't lose anything for the first few games so it was hard for him to get that opportunity.

‘But he's remained professional and worked really hard and that's why he got his rewards on Tuesday night with a decent performance and contribution to a win.’

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Potter’s hopes for 2023 and prediction for Forest

31 DEC 2022


It is that time when many people traditionally start looking ahead and our head coach has been asked his wishes for Chelsea for the new year.

The first date on the calendar brings a game for the Blues with many more to follow, and having arrived at Stamford Bridge in the September of the closing year, Graham Potter gave his view on the months to come and what he hopes they will bring.

‘Well, we want to keep improving, that's the simple answer,’ he says. ‘We've had some ups and some downs in terms of the previous year, which is normal I think in any football club, but we want to try and stabilise and we want to try and improve and make our supporters happy, because we know that before the break, the last few weeks, it wasn't nice for us.

‘Results suffered and performances weren't where we'd like them to be. So we have to do better than that.’

There were good signs for the games ahead in the way that the Blues restarted the campaign and beat Bournemouth. Now on New Year’s Day comes a visit to a club in the bottom three. The Blues certainly are not letting our guard down as we face Nottingham Forest.

‘You always have to be wary in the Premier League,’ warns Potter. ‘You can't say on the one hand, it's the greatest league in the world and then think there are easy games. There aren't.

‘Forest had a fantastic result against Liverpool before the break and I have huge respect for Steve Cooper and the job that he's done there. It’s tremendous, he’s a fantastic coach.


‘So they'll be ready. The atmosphere will be hostile I'm pretty sure, because they've been back in the Premier League for the first year for a long, long time so every game, especially Chelsea coming to town, is a big game for them.

‘They'll be motivated and they’ll have the quality and they'll be fighting for the points so we have to be ready.’


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