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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 23944804" data-attributes="member: 158020">Maurizio Sarri: 'Now everybody knows Chelsea's problems'  Maurizio Sarri is calling for 'a reaction' as he hopes Chelsea's 3-1 defeat to Tottenham can serve as a wake up call to resolve variety of defensive issues, which he has been trying to iron out in training ever since he joined the club. Mauricio Pochettino masterminded an end to his London rivals' 18-game unbeaten run at Wembley Stadium and saw his Spurs side leapfrog Chelsea, who dropped to fourth and now sit seven points off the leaders Manchester City. By his own admission, Sarri was cautious to accept too much praise for Chelsea's start, knowing that his side hadn't fully grasped his tactical ideas and having seen his team get some results on their ability to finish chances alone. He is now pushing his players to be even more open to his football philosophy and to use the pain of the London derby defeat to really make his system work."The character of the team is very strange," Sarri told journalists at Wembley Stadium. "93 points, the season after just 60 points, then 87 and then 70. Of course, I hope for a reaction. A reaction first of all in training and then in the next match but I knew very well that we have problems and that we have to work. "Now everybody knows it. We have to work in all directions, I think. I hope [that this can be a wake up call]. I knew very well that we had problems. So I told them this two weeks ago and one week ago. Now I think that the problem is evident. "I hope it is for them because we have to work and improve. Today we had a lot of problems from the physical point of view, mental point of view, technically, we lost a lot of balls in our half. Also tactically because we had a big problem in staying compact." Meanwhile, the Spurs match was the first of 12 in 40 days for Chelsea, in what is a typically busy period in the English football calendar.The winter schedule sees Chelsea playing two more Europa League matches, on top of a Carabao Cup game, as well as an increased schedule in the Premier League. Sarri thinks that this schedule may limit his ability to iron out issues with individual players, as he is focused on opposition tactics before each match day. "I don’t know, it is very difficult to have time to try to improve the team and solve problems because we have time normally only to prepare for the next match," Sarri continued. "We have to play every three days. But we have to do something, we have to try to do something. "We have to try to improve as a team, first of all, then player-by-player."PAOK will come to Stamford Bridge on Thursday in the Europa League, before Chelsea's next league match against Claudio Ranieri's Fulham.</blockquote>

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