Mauricio Pochettino has revealed that Chelsea’s goalscoring problems are rooted in a lack of confidence in his players.

The Argentine addressed the issue again, while speaking at a press conference on Friday, ahead of his return to Tottenham as manager of the Blues.

Poch however assured that both him and the entire team are working to ensure that the situation changes— and that it will in no distant future.

“You can work every day and you can spend a lot of time on it,” said the Blues’ boss.

“You can work but improving or not improving is about your confidence and your feelings. Players need time to recover their trust and their feelings. Not because you practice more.

“You need to have the right attitude and you need to settle yourself with good feelings, the will to do it. When you have a block you can practice and practice and it’s the same.

“But if before you practice your mind is in the right place you can improve. At the moment we are fighting with this. We are looking to recover the trust in our offensive players.

“The most important thing is to get a good balance because from many circumstances the ball is not hitting the net. But I think we are in a good way and you can feel that we are improving, progressing.

“It is part of the process, it is part of the project. It is normal when you have young players arrive at a club like Chelsea where the demand is so high from the beginning. The demand and the competition doesn’t wait for you and you need to perform.

“You need to put all the circumstances and differences, like coming from a different league, aside. There is pressure because of the history.

“That is why it’s about the process but I am not concerned about that because we know what we are doing and for sure it is going to arrive, the moment that we are going to perform. Not only to perform but translate performance into results.”