Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel says they must be wary facing Ralph Hasenhuttl's Southampton.
Tuchel is up for the challenge of facing Southampton's distinctive style of energetic, pressing football, and acknowledges there are plenty of options available to counter those tactics, in addition to hoping to give the visitors some problems with our own pressing.
He said, "We have developed some ideas and some solutions of course to deal with this high pressure. In general you need to be absolutely aware of it. You don't have time to think when you're on the ball, we need to anticipate situations, we need to be very good in the timing and distance of our passing, if we want to escape high pressure in our own half.
"It can also be a possibility to use long balls to escape high pressing, but then you need to have a good position before. The most important thing is that we are aware and that we don't judge teams by their name or their ranking or their previous results, but we talk about what we see and their behaviour and we need to be aware of an aggressive and an intense team.
"We want to also have the answer to the pressing from Southampton with counter-pressing and to give them a taste of their own medicine, also because it is a part of our game."
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