Pochettino reveals what he told frustrated Thiago Silva during Bournemouth clash

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Chelsea could only get a point against Bournemouth, away at Vitality Stadium on Sunday.

It was quite an uninspiring performance from Mauricio Pochettino’s side, and Chelsea’s oldest man Thiago Silva, was seen being frustrated with his teammates at times.

Pochettino admits he had to tell Silva to calm down at times.

Asked in his post match press conference why the experienced Brazil international was so frustrated, Pochettino said: “We were talking with Thiago to be more relaxed because sometimes the defensive player wants to help the team to score and we need to be clever.

“Too many players are still learning about the game and that is constructing a new team and we need to improve. In these types of games when you are pushing, if you cannot win – you cannot lose.”

On the overall display, Pochettino added: “I think again, it is to talk about deserve but the chances we create in the first 20, 25 minutes, I think we deserved in this moment to score but we didn’t score.

“Then the game was open, the last 15, 20 minutes I think we wanted to win, sometimes we started to disorganise our defence with the full back so high which gave the possibility to make some counterattacks in transition.

“Disappointed with the result because we wanted to win but of course, we know the circumstances. Again we deserve more but we didn’t get what we deserve.”