Tottenham vs Chelsea preview: Londoners meet in Carabao Cup semi-final first leg
London rivals Tottenham and Chelsea meet in a blockbuster Carabao Cup semi-final first leg at Wembley on Tuesday. Mauricio Pochettino and Maurizio Sarri
sbo128 are both attempting to win the first major trophy of their managerial careers - they are the only current managers of top six teams yet to win any major honours.Sarri's first two losses as Chelsea boss came at Wembley, in August's Community Shield and, after an 18-match unbeaten run, against Spurs on November 24.
In that game,
sbo128 Spurs scored twice in the opening 16 minutes and Sarri afterwards bemoaned his side's attitude.He said on Monday that his team must match Spurs' desire before tactics can be taken into account.He added: "We need to approach the match in another way, because we lost the match in the first 15 minutes. They were really more aggressive than us, more determined than us.
"Now we know very well if we approach the same there's no solution for us.
sbo128 I want to speak before about this, otherwise it's useless to speak about tactics."Meanwhile, over the last 10 years since Jan 2009, Tottenham have played in six major semi-finals, but lost all four against teams from the same division. They have only beaten League One Sheffield Utd and then Championship club Burnley in that period.
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