It was a successful but not a perfect season – Kovacic

Chelsea midfielder and Croatia star Mateo Kovacic has reacted to the Blues’ performance this season as he viewed it as a successful season but not a perfect one.

This season Chelsea finished in the top four but lost two opportunities to lift the FA Cup and Carabao Cup which they lost to Liverpool.

Kovacic stressed that Chelsea were, however, able to lift the FIFA club world cup, one they have never won in the club’s history.

‘In my opinion, it can be viewed as a successful season, not the perfect season, but a very good season,’ Kovacic said.

‘We got two trophies, one which Chelsea never got, so it’s a proud moment to be the first team to have won the Club World Cup. With all our problems, we still reached two cup finals. It’s still a big achievement. If we had won one more trophy more, it would be a very, very good season.

Kovacic said Chelsea had a very good first spell of the season but injuries and some Covid cases, caused them problems.

Chelsea managed to finish in the top four.

‘In life and in football you have bad moments and good moments,’ he added.

‘We had very good moments over the last year, and unfortunately in the last two finals, two disappointments, but we will come back stronger for sure.’