“I am not being brave,” Villas-Boas countered when asked why the likes of Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba can no longer be regarded as automatic choices. “It’s for the benefit of the team.”Villas-Boas denied there was a message being sent out through his refreshing approach in which the squad is, basically, rotated fully as his club fight on all fronts.
“I’m not telling people anything,” he explained. “You’ve got it wrong. It’s about choices for the team. Nothing wrong with it — the fact that players are changing, out-in, how they will react to changed situations. We all see things as team objectives.”
He said he did not know whether his approach was better, adding: "Chelsea have been very successful [in the past]. At the moment what we manage is a squad ready to challenge. We are three points behind the leaders [of the Premier League] and challenging for all competitions. Team selection is part of the most natural thing in the world.” It is indeed. Which is, also, why it is discussed so widely.
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