Chelsea’s Spanish midfielder Cesc Fabregas has revealed that his confidence was so low earlier in the season that he “forgot how to play football.”
Along with his team-mates, Fabregas has endured a tough campaign at Stamford Bridge, which resulted in the sacking of Jose Mourinho as the club’s manager, as the Blues, who won the league title last season, slumped in a lower position in the bottom half of the top-flight standings.
Speaking to Goal.com, Fabregas said he even forgot how to play football, during the early part of the season
He said: “One time after a game, after Bournemouth (a 1-0 defeat in November), I was in bed and I spoke to my wife. “I forgot how to play football, I have the ball and I don’t know what to do with it.
“It was hard, those two or three months from November, when I had no confidence.”
Fabregas, as well as the Blues’ form has picked up since the turn of the New Year. Chelsea went on a 15 game unbeaten run, prior to a couple of defeats on the spin recently.
And the 28-year-old has noticed a change, in his own game: “Everything has changed in the last few months, I’m playing very well, Fabregas said.
“Most importantly, it isn’t how you get (knocked) down, it’s how you get back up. I can be better now.”
He recently admitted on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football Programme, where he was studio pundit, that he has researched in-coming manager, Antonio Conte, with the Italian to take over in the dugout after Euro 2016.
Fabregas said: “He is a winner and a competitor an that’s what we need: someone to push us and motivate us.”