Thiago Silva should have been smiling on Saturday afternoon after Chelsea’s victory on the Luton pitch (3-2) even if the success was difficult to achieve. A few moments after the final whistle, the Brazilian defender seemed upset when a cameraman came onto the pitch to take a close-up of him. The former Paris SG player then made the technician understand with a gesture of his arm that he had to go and film someone else and elsewhere.
Silva, who was not satisfied with his team’s performance, took to social media a little later to explain his action. “Any professional athlete seeks to do the maximum and thinks they can always do better. In a very competitive championship, these are details that allow you to obtain three points. And I didn’t want to spend the first of the year like I spent Christmas (Chelsea lost on December 24 against Woverhampton, editor’s note),” explained the international who, even if he was in a bad mood after the meeting, still took the time to pose with the Chelsea supporters, notably some in wheelchairs.
“Thiago is like that. He always complains and is never happy but that’s good,” his coach Mauricio Pochettino joked on the subject while speaking to the TNT Sports channel. Proof that the smile had returned in the evening, Thiago Silva published another message on social networks testifying to his good mood: “But after seeing my children smile, I was happy too! But it’s something that no one shows,” concluded the South American, accompanying his message with happy smileys.
