Mauricio Pochettino said Chelsea would bring Nicholas Jackson back from the African national cup with a conflict with Liverpool on Wednesday. Jackson’s Senegal were knocked out of the AFCON tournament on Monday night, losing to Ivory Coast in a dramatic penalty shoot-out in the round of 16.
Following the Senegalese’s departure, Chelsea are keen to bring original striker Jackson back to the club and join the first team as soon as possible. Speaking about Jackson in his pre-match press conference, Pochettino admitted the club are trying to bring him in for Wednesday’s heavyweight clash with Liverpool at Anfield.“We’re looking to see if Jackson can play.
Probably so. “If it means we have a 1% better chance of winning the game, we will certainly try,” Pochettino said. “We’re waiting. I mean, it could be there. Ghana were shut out in their last defeat, with Inaki Williams coming on hours early to play in the second half to beat Barcelona in the Copa del Rey.”Why can’t Jackson come in and score the winning goal?””(Jackson’s absence) allowed us to be more creative in different situations and work hard to give a good balance to the team because we’ve been working on it for six or seven months,” the Chelsea manager added. “We change our players all the time. We always have 12, 13, 14 and 10, 12 available. Finding the balance and competing at your best has always been difficult. We talk about different aspects and aspects of the game. It’s hard to stay consistent when you can’t repeat next week and the next with the same team. “But as for Nico, we miss the ‘aggressiveness’ he will bring in the future.” He runs a lot, puts in a lot of effort and also scores goals, which helps the team to apply a lot of pressure, recover and score.”He is doing well at the moment.
I think I missed out on a lot, and in some ways I’m happy I can catch up now, but in other ways I’m sad I lost. But selfishly, I’m happy that he can be with us.”
