Hupu announced on May 10 that Chelsea's left-back Cucurella accepted a momentary interview in the mixed interview area after the 1-1 draw with Liverpool.
Cucurella firmly believes that Chelsea can extract positive elements from this hard-fought draw and bring these experiences into this weekend's FA Cup final against Manchester City.
The Red Army quickly launched a fierce attack on the Blue Army at Anfield Stadium. Ryan Gravenberch first scored the goal. However, the visiting team Chelsea relied on Enzo Fernandez's free kick to equalize the score. This 1-1 draw ended Chelsea's six-game losing streak in the Premier League. During this period, the Blues' psychological quality was questioned, and Cucurella felt this deeply.
Cucurella said frankly, "I understand, because in the end, the most important thing is the result." "Yes, the results in recent weeks have not been as good as they should be, and they are indeed unsatisfactory."
This is football. Today, our performance is good, but it is not enough. The reason is because we have a passionate desire to win from beginning to end.
Now, we have a few days to prepare for this game. The final is the final after all, and the most important thing is to get the trophy.
Chelsea return to Wembley Stadium on Saturday afternoon to face Manchester City in the FA Cup final, 20 days after beating Leeds United in the semi-finals, giving Chelsea a golden opportunity to salvage what has been a disappointing season so far.
However, Callum McFarland's side are underdogs in the final as Manchester City still have a chance of winning the treble this season. Cucurella feels that Chelsea should be able to learn from the draw with Liverpool. Although the visiting team Liverpool had the advantage most of the time on Merseyside, Chelsea should bring these positive aspects to Wembley.
"I think the reaction of the team after the 3-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest was pretty good," the Spain international said.
Today, we once again confirmed that as long as we think in one place and work hard, we are a very good team.
We hope that such a draw will greatly enhance our confidence. At certain moments, we should have won the game. However, we must rely on this situation as a basis to continue to move forward. In the next week, we will encounter a game of extremely critical significance, so we must make sufficient preparations to bring out the best state to face the challenge. ".
When asked if Chelsea have what it takes to beat Manchester City in this weekend's FA Cup final, Cucurella responded:
Well, yes, we do have such an outstanding team, and there are many athletes with excellent abilities in the team. Our current situation is very difficult, but we must work together.
The team fell behind 0-1 in just 10 minutes at Anfield. This is not an easy situation to achieve, but the team's subsequent response was quite outstanding. I think we should extract those positive elements from today's game to prepare for subsequent games, hoping that we can finally win the trophy. ".
"Cucurella continued, we need to believe in ourselves, the team is in good shape, many players won two trophies last season, so the strength is there, we need to adjust some places, we need to be fully prepared for this game, because in this kind of game, each team can always perform well.".
Although Cucurella is satisfied with the team's performance, Chelsea's failure to get all three points still seems to make him regretful. McFarland also made the same point when interviewed by reporters after the game: "This club needs to win, but we did not achieve that today.".
We are not satisfied with the state of the team and some of its recent performances. So, yes, it's nice to be able to present a good and complete game. It would be even more ideal if we could win, but it is really difficult to play in such an away game. So, yes, it's still positive.