Selasa, 18 Oktober 2011

CECH: WINNING COMES FIRST






Petr Cech kept a clean sheet in Chelsea's first Champions League home game of the season when Bayer Leverkusen were dispatched 2-0. Similar shut-outs in the Barclays Premier League since have been hard to come by but our long-serving goalkeeper sees it as a matter of fine tuning.
As he looks to play his part against Genk at the Bridge on Wednesday night, Cech feels a member of a team that is improving all the time.
'We kept on going from having a very good pre season, the mood around the camp is good, and we are looking forward to the next set of games,' says the 29-year-old.
'It is always better to keep clean sheets but the team comes first and we are winning games.
'We are a team that wants to play well with the ball and we are not sitting back waiting for the game to finish, we want to kill the game off and maybe that is why sometimes at the end of the game when you want to score more goals, conceding goals happens.
'At the moment as well we are unlucky with little details, we did not control them, and that is why we were punished and concede goals. But we are aware of it and we are improving and I think it is going to stop. We will get back to keeping clean sheets.'
Cech admits to showing annoyance with team-mates after an away game at Blackpool last season when a Chelsea side 3-0 up let in an 86th minute goal. He does not compare it with this season.
'We can see now that everybody is concentrated and focused on their jobs and when you concede, sometimes you can say the opposition created a good movement and scored a goal and it was not an issue.
'Against Blackpool last year it was that at 3-0, everybody just stopped doing what they should which is why I got angry, but this was not the case this season.'
If fit, Genk midfielder Daniel Pudil will be one of the players attempting to spoil Cech's clean sheet hopes on Wednesday but he returned from international duty with the Czech Republic with a hamstring injury and missed the weekend game.
'We played together against Lithuania and Spain and he got an injury in the last game and is fighting to be fit,' Cech says of his compatriot.
'It is always nice to be playing against people you know from the national team but let's see if he is fit. The most important is how we are going to play.'
A key player in that is likely to be in-form Juan Mata who is praised by Cech for making such an impact so quickly.
'It is not easy when you come as a big player to a new environment and a different team and he has settled brilliantly.
'You can see why the club has paid so much money for a player like him. Creating goal-scoring opportunities is why we brought him and is exactly what he is doing. He has been brilliant so far and I hope he stays fit and is going to be playing the same way.'