‘We removed the mask’ - De Zerbi credits ‘change of spirit’ at Spurs for first win at Chelsea since 2018

In 90 minutes we played very well, great individual performance, great collective performance because we played very well. And then we put something different than Tottenham, I think, in the last period. Changing the spirit of the group changed the performance of the players, especially the more fragile players, maybe the younger players, Matheus Fernandes maybe was one of the best players on the pitch, like Mathys Tel, Archie Gray is younger but is older as a mentality. I think the negative record was the last problem we faced before the game. Normally we wanted to make our fans happy, but it's not our responsibility, it's the result of the past. Now, winning the game, we are very happy for them, very proud for the club, but I think we are working to change the mentality of our club in the last seasons. Seven points after Manchester, before Manchester we spoke a lot, a big, big meeting, removing the mask and speaking honestly, clearly in front of ourselves and from that moment I think it changed something in ourselves. We are a big club, in the last period the results have been not so good, but we are a top club in the Premier League and we must show personality, we must show mentality, we must show our qualities to the players, otherwise we have to change the club. We won two games in a row, we made seven points, okay, but we didn't win nothing, we can uh can find again the the the first uh period and no we want to improve improve improve and to be better game by game week by week i think we we have suffered enough