Gary Cahill believes Chelsea’s convincing 4-0 Champions League victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv has given the team the morale boost they desperately needed before they face Arsenal on Saturday at Stamford Bridge.
A run of poor Premier League results has left Chelsea 17th in the table, 11 points behind Manchester City but Wednesday’s dominant performance eased some of the early pressure on José Mourinho.
“It was the ideal game for us,” said Cahill. “We were dominant throughout, kept a clean sheet and scored four goals. It was exactly what we were looking for to try to get us up and running.
“It means we’ll go into training in better spirits than we have been going into training. Happier, more lively. Saturday is a huge game. I’m not going to say it’s going to have an absolutely massive impact on that because it probably won’t but in terms of the feel-good factor around us, it certainly will.
“It’s normal when you’ve had a bad run or you lose games that certain players dip in confidence, that’s just natural. The only thing that turns that around is winning games. That is why [beating Maccabi] was so pleasing. That’s the only thing that can turn things around: win, win, win. And we’ve got another chance to do that on Saturday.”
Cahill said the fact Arsenal struggled in their Champions League fixture, beaten 2-1 at Dinamo Zagreb, would give Chelsea a psychological edge but said both sides would put European results out of their minds.
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