CHELSEA didn’t beat Aston Villa this night in a really bland match, piling much more stress on Blues boss Frank Lampard.
Lampard might be feeling the warmth as the 1-1 draw with Aston Villa means his facet have now received simply ONCE in 5 matches,
Chelsea have been held to a irritating draw towards Aston Villa Credit score: Getty – Pool
The Blues went 1-0 up within the first half however, as an alternative of going forward and finishing the job, their psychological fragility resurfaced as they folded below the stress.
The sequence main as much as Aston Villa’s aim and what occurred after it completely sums up Lampard’s gamers.
Andreas Christensen went down believing he was fouled by Jack Grealish.
The referee didn’t give the free kick, and as an alternative of sorting themselves out and protecting the participant on the ground, Chelsea panicked and didn’t cease and cope with a cross that result in Villa’s equaliser.
Christensen stayed on the ground the entire time, solely to choose himself up, finally, and appear completely high quality as quickly because the aim went in.
Are you able to think about John Terry doing that? No is the reply, and that is a part of the issue.
A dropping mentality and a scarcity of need; he ought to have been again up enjoying to the whistle and getting again in to assist his staff defend.
Chelsea were on the front foot before the equaliser, and they need to have gone on and received the match.
Andreas Christensen went down believing he was fouled by Jack GrealishCredit score: Amazon
The referee waved play onCredit score: Amazon
However, as an alternative of combating again after the aim, heads dropped, believing that they had been wronged.
However a ref just isn’t going to alter a call, and Chelsea ought to have been selecting themselves up and going straight again out for the successful aim.
Bar a number of late harmful moments and a few quick respectable spells – they confirmed completely nothing on the pitch and failed to assert the factors in a recreation that they merely wanted to win to bounce again from a poor run of matches.
Whether or not you need to blame the coach or the gamers, the actual fact of the matter right here is that the staff utterly lack any type of confidence or perception in themselves.
Chelsea wanted a response after that equaliser, Christensen wanted to get again to his ft and put 100 per cent effort in to defending his aim similar to Terry would have carried out.
However none of it got here and Chelsea drop two more crucial points.
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