Cucurella: Chelsea are indeed not nervous enough to defend strong throws and set pieces

Hupu, October 26th: When analyzing Chelsea's 1-2 home defeat to Sunderland, Cucurella said frankly: "We need to learn from it."

Shortly after the final whistle, Cucurella accepted a media interview. The Spaniard admitted that the result was unacceptable, but he called on the Blues to learn from this defeat and better "control" the game in the future.

"It's really hard to accept and, of course, we're all very disappointed. We need to improve in these games. I think we need to learn to control the game better.

We scored early and dominated at that stage, but then we let them get one back. I think we need to learn to finish the game when we're ahead.

We scored the first goal and I think we should when we have the chance It’s time to score one more. We need to learn to play better against teams like Sunderland who have a very compact formation.

The good news is that the season has just begun. We still have a lot of games to improve and we have enough time to do that and win more points.”

The left-back also emphasized that there is another game coming, away from Wolves, and the focus is to get back to winning ways as soon as possible.

"We know that for those goals we concede, we can control those situations better, we know a lot of teams are trying to use the throw-in more and we need to control them better.

We worked on it yesterday because we knew Sunderland would tend to use the throw-in and take advantage directly from set-pieces. I thought maybe we relaxed a little bit and they punished us as a result.

That's no excuse, we need to take it from there. Learn your lesson and make sure this never happens again.

Then, for the second goal, I thought we needed to take better control of the situation. We do always want to win, especially at home, but we were punished when chances were taken on the counter-attack. Although it is a small mistake, we need to learn from it.

The good thing about football is that you can always correct mistakes quickly. We have another game on Wednesday and this is our chance to come back and win. "