Willy Caballero has described long throw-ins as “such an issue” after Chelsea dropped more points against Bournemouth on Tuesday evening.
The Blues were held to a 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday night as they lost more ground in the race for Champions League football.
Cole Palmer and Enzo Fernandez scored for Chelsea, but the Blues were undone twice by long throw-ins from the Cherries.
Willy Caballero on long throw ins
Chelsea have now conceded four goals from long throw-ins this season, the most in the league, and simply seem unable to deal with them.
Bournemouth had further opportunities to score, but also lacked the required quality in front of goal to take advantage.
Set piece coach Bernardo Cueva needs to find a solution, because not being able to defend long throws is becoming a major issue.
Chelsea concede against Bournemouth.
Chelsea conceded two goals from long throws against Bournemouth. (Photo by Eddie Keogh/Getty Images)
Caballero, who was filling in post match for an unwell Enzo Maresca, tried to explain why the Blues struggled so much with long throws.
“It’s such an issue because now every single game and every other team has got not just one, sometimes two or three players that can deliver a very long throw,” he told his post-match press conference.
“It means that all of the other teams invest a lot in long throws and they create many set pieces about that and it just gives us information that we have to deal quickly because we need to improve in any set pieces.
“We are unlucky to have [conceded] these four goals [from long throws], probably the day of the Brentford it hurts a lot because it was in the last second and we could have two more points.”
Chelsea need to improve defensively at set pieces
Caballero highlighted the need to improve, but also felt there were details that can sometimes be very difficult to deal with.
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“Today, two in the same way it hurts so we need to correct that and we need to improve because there are many things that happen there,” he added.
“Sometimes it’s how they move, how they go for the first contact but even though the second goal today was a deflection from our own players so there are many details that sometimes are very difficult to deal with in that scenario.”