A late equaliser has cost Chelsea against Burnley, despite manager Liam Rosenior having five central defenders on the pitch.
Chelsea have just conceded a late equaliser to Burnley’s Zian Flemming, who had a free header from a corner which he planted past Robert Sanchez.
“You could sense it,” said former England midfielder Farah Williams on the BBC’s coverage.
“It was a great delivery from Ward-Prowse from the set piece but Flemming runs right across the eyeline of [Andrey] Santos and he just lets him run. A free header, uses the pace of the delivery to send it back across goal. The marking from Chelsea is shocking.”
Chelsea soft despite Rosenior’s best efforts
Andrey Santos looks disappointed.
Andrey Santos looks disappointed. (Photo by Jasper Wax/Getty Images)
The irony is that this was the one way that we were going to concede in this game, and it was the one thing that manager Liam Rosenior was trying to act against. In Mamadou Sarr, Jorrel Hato, Josh Acheampong and Tosin Adarabioyo, the coach had brought on FOUR players who are capable of playing at centre back to join Trevoh Chalobah at the back.
Yet they were all rooted to the spot as Flemming had a free run at the ball. The personnel were there – where was the organisation? Who is taking responsibility? We wrote earlier in the week about our ongoing weakness at set pieces, and this was just more evidence of that today.
In other news…
Chelsea were put into serious trouble in this game by the red card for Wesley Fofana, who foolishly lunged in and got a second yellow for a tackle on James Ward-Prowse.
One piece of bad news today was the injury to Estevao. Liam Rosenior gave an update on that issue before kick off this afternoon.
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