Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino admits his young players struggle with the club's demands.

Pochettino says the pressure has been difficult for some young signings.

He said: “One thing we cannot change is to give time to the players to get experience and be more mature.

“In the same time that you ask me about Cole Palmer, not all the players have the same process of settling in at the club or to perform. Yes, we are in a process that the main group, the main young players…of course they struggle a little bit to deal with the pressure to play for Chelsea.

“That is the thing we are, of course, aware of and we are focusing on trying to help them in all the areas. Because when you have this young squad, it's not only to help them in training, in the two hours maybe of that. We have spent a lot of time talking with the people that work around these guys, who are important too."