February had been a period of much trouble for the Blues with a lot of questions being thrown around on whether Sarri is the right man for the Chelsea job and whether Sarriball works in England and so on. However , David Luiz has been affirmative about the fact that players are right behind Sarri and they back their manager 100%.
“You don’t change your character because of the situation, you change the situation,” Luiz told BBC Sport.
“When you lose a game, like we did in Manchester, no-one is going to be happy and coming here joking around. He’s a real person, and real people have feelings good and bad.”
“To play you have to be intelligent,” he added. “We lived a few weeks of difficult moments and the players adapted very well. The manager adapted very well, the club adapted very well.
“It was the decision of the club to change the style of football. For many years people said Chelsea were winning but never controlled the game. Now we control the game and people say we don’t win.
“It’s about what we really believe. Every player believes in his philosophy and everyone is giving 100%.”
The experienced Brazilian ball-playing-defender believes Sarriball is still the way to go but has been tweaked just enough to start getiing positive results once again.
“I don’t think the style has changed,” he said. “We just adapted some moments in the game, like the line to have high press or not.
“Sometimes you stabilise the team and just defend for a few minutes to get back the oxygen and try and play our game. But our philosophy is the same. We are still playing the same style.”
