Liam Rosenior has just taken his press conference ahead of the match against Arsenal on Wednesday night.
The new Chelsea boss revealed that he and his staff had already been preparing for this match, rather than being totally focused on the FA Cup game against Derby they played on Saturday
Chelsea staff looking ahead to Arsenal since arrival at the club
Liam Rosenior and Justin Walker at the Valley.
Liam Rosenior and Justin Walker at the Valley.
“We’ve been working tactically on Arsenal since I came into the club. We know how important the game is. I was very happy with the attitude against Charlton, in terms of our energy, intensity and winning duels,” the manager said.
That makes sense, frankly. While you want coaches to take things game by game, Charlton was a game with a rotated team and a tweaked formation. As well as preparing for that game, we would have expected Rosenior to be thinking and planning on his first team setup too.
He hardly will have wanted the 8 or so players who will feature against Arsenal on Wednesday who didn’t play against Charlton to have had nothing to do in the week since he took over.
We’re really excited for it – after a perfect warm up against lower league opposition, we get an idea of what Rosenior’s first team is going to look like and how they’re going to play.
In other news…
The manager also spoke about some of his potentially injured players – three of them picked up knocks against Fulham a week ago and then didn’t feature in the squad for the Charlton game.
Rosenior’s breakthrough was at Derby, initially as an assistant under Wayne Rooney then taking over from the England legend. One of his players from that time has spoke about his boss’ quality and how well suited he is to take over the Chelsea job.
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