Matic to get back to basics to regain his confidence.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is eager to rebuild Nemanja
Matic's confidence after a slow start to the season.
Matic, a key part of his side's Premier League title success in
2014-15, has endured a difficult campaign thus far.
He was substituted after coming on against Southampton and
started on the bench against Aston Villa on Saturday – days
after being sent off for Serbia.
Mourinho, whose team face Dynamo Kiev in the Champions
League on Tuesday, said Matic was lacking belief but hopes to
rebuild it by returning to basics.
"Confidence is fundamental. Matic lost an easy pass when he
came on [against Villa] and the first reaction he had was to
show disappointment," he said.
"When you are full of confidence you don't show
disappointment. You make a mistake, you know that you’re not
going to make another mistake after.
"So [be] calm, let’s go step by step."
Matic came on for Ruben Loftus-Cheek in Chelsea's much-
needed 2-0 victory against Villa.
Mourinho warned the 19-year-old there were still areas of his
game that needed work.
"I think he [Loftus-Cheek] has to look to the intensity and the
defensive tactical work that people like Ramires, [Cesc]
Fabregas did and he didn't," he said.
"And try just to compare himself with others and understand
why I didn’t keep him in the game for 90 minutes."
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