Mauricio Pochettino admitted his younger Chelsea aspect want to be greater mature after their surprise 1-zero defeat towards Nottingham Forest on Saturday.

Anthony Elanga’s purpose condemned Pochettino’s facet to their 2nd loss withinside the Argentine’s 4 Premier League video games in charge.

Former Manchester United winger Elanga punished a mistake from Moises Caicedo, raced onto Taiwo Awoniyi’s byskip and slotted domestic withinside the forty eighth minute at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea have gained simply as soon as withinside the league this season and are languishing in eleventh place.

Pochettino stored religion with the beginning line-up that beat Luton 3-zero withinside the league ultimate week, however his green group struggled to impose themselves in opposition to Forest.

England Under-21 ahead Cole Palmer, signed from Manchester City on Friday, turned into certainly considered one among numerous uncooked substitutes added with the aid of using Pochettino to no avail withinside the 2d half, underlining the want for his gamers to develop extra battle-hardened quickly.

“We have been now no longer medical in each areas,” Pochettino said. “We made a mistake after which we created opportunities, however in case you don’t rating it’s miles hard to win video games.

“This kind of game, I assume, will assist us to be extra mature, it isn’t always handiest approximately having quality, it’s also approximately competing in one-of-a-kind ways.

“Of direction we can’t say that we didn’t deserve extra, however in soccer the stats now and again replicate what you do and if so we created however we didn’t rating and we best had some photographs on target.”

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Chelsea’s proprietors have spent greater than £1 billion on new gamers in view that shopping for the membership from Roman Abramovich in 2022, consisting of around £380 million on 10 signings for Pochettino.

At gift Chelsea lack brotherly love and slicing edge, leaving them at risk of punishment in the event that they make a mistake on the back.

West Ham beat the Blues 3-1 regardless of Chelsea controlling ownership for lengthy durations and it turned into a comparable tale towards Forest.

While it’s miles too early to ponder Pochettino being below pressure, the previous Paris-Saint Germain and Tottenham boss could have referred to Graham Potter lasted simply seven months earlier than being sacked with the aid of using co-proprietor Todd Boehly ultimate season.

Despite their rocky start, Pochettino stays assured Chelsea will flip the tide.

“We are constructing some thing and it’s far usually up and down. We are unfortunate due to the fact I assume we deserved extra in opposition to West Ham and today,” he said.