Chelsea supervisor Liam Rosenior rounded on a few of his gamers on Saturday, blaming one for failing to finish a primary man-marking ‘task’ as Burnley equalised at Stamford Bridge.
The guests’ Dutch striker Zian Flemming was left unmarked to satisfy James Ward-Prowse’s nook, regardless of each Jos Acheampong and Mamadou Sarr being despatched on so as to add top in a reshuffle after Wesley Fofana was despatched off.
Chelsea’s hapless defence then virtually conceded a Burnley winner when a duplicate nook by Ward-Prowse was headed over by Jacob Bruun Larsen.
An indignant Rosenior mentioned: ‘An task was missed. An task – a marking task – wasn’t accomplished. Flemming, we all know, is their finest header of the ball.
‘And there was a participant who I will not… I am not right here to throw gamers underneath the bus, I’ll all the time defend my gamers, I’ll take care of it within the week. There was a participant we assigned that obligation who marked the unsuitable participant.’
The Chelsea supervisor supplied extra barbed criticism of his gamers by claiming he had seen how some weren’t being ‘accountable’ when coping with high-pressure conditions.
Chelsea boss Liam Rosenior has blamed one among his Chelsea stars for Burnley’s equaliser
He mentioned: ‘There are too many cases the place we have conceded objectives from moments of lack of focus and accountability.
‘You must have gamers you may depend on within the second to do a job. There are particular values you want to have in your workforce. It is all the way down to assessing gamers and those you assess in the proper second. We want participant who in key moments can see issues by means of.’
The 41-year-old supervisor insisted he had accomplished his personal job in defending his facet – regardless of a reshuffle after Wesley Fofana’s dismissal which left six defenders on the sphere, together with 4 centre halves. He mentioned his planning was primarily based on figuring out that ‘the one approach Burnley had been going to attain in that second was from a Ward-Prowse set play.’ The equaliser, which adopted Leeds United’s come-back right here, introduced boos on the ultimate whistle.
Rosenior mentioned: ‘I’ve tried to go as massive as doable. Reece [James] was stretching and I needed to ensure I protected him. Pedro Neto was stretching. I wanted to guard him. We had sufficient on the pitch to take care of that second and we did not.
‘This price us two extra factors. It isn’t adequate for a membership of this degree. I am studying in regards to the gamers – the individuals you may lean on when issues should not going your approach.’
Burnley supervisor Scott Parker praised the way in which his gamers had fought again, after the shock of FA Cup defeat to Mansfield final weekend.
‘We have come into this massive league and fallen a bit quick however what now we have not fallen quick on is resilience, although the strain has elevated ten-fold at instances,’ Parker mentioned.
He acknowledged Ward-Prowse’s excellence from the set-piece. ‘You’ll be able to give you all of the setpiece coaches however essentially you want the ball delivered on the cash. You then’ve obtained an opportunity.’
