Dropping 4 Points At Home Is Not Good Enough – Liam Rosenior

Chelsea manager Liam Rosenior has said that he is learning which players he can and cannot rely on at the club. He recently had his say after Wesley Fofana was sent off before throwing away two points in added time in a 1-1 draw against Burnley.

According to him, he cannot even blame Fofana’s red card for the points dropped because the final result is what Chelsea deserved after the general poor performance.

Rosenior added that the Blues just set fire to four points from two home games, and that is not good enough.

His words, “That wasn’t on Wesley. That was on our performance. From the first goal, we lacked incision when we had control. I want us to create wave after wave of attacks. We were too safe in our possession.

We knew their biggest threat with Ward-Prowse on the pitch was set plays. We went as big as we possibly could because that was the only way they could score with 10 men. We still don’t see it out.

We’ve set fire to four points from two home games. It’s not good enough for a club of this level for me to say we were the better team.

I’m learning about the players. I’m learning about the people you can lean on when things aren’t going your way and you need to see a game out. That’s something we need to address very quickly.

We need to have players you can rely on in the moment to do their jobs. Set plays are massive in the Premier League. Our record this season in defending set plays is not to the level required to achieve what we want.

I know what we need to get there. It’s not down to youth. It’s down to assessing the players you can rely on in the difficult moments.”

WOW.

Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.

The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.

On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.

The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.