Chelsea are not “a nasty team” – Blues “inexperience” called into question by pundit | OneFootball

Chelsea’s ‘inexperience’ has once again been called into question this weekend after they dropped more points against Burnley.

It was the second relegation battling team that Chelsea had dropped points to in a row now, drawing 2-2 with Leeds United in their last league game, then drawing 1-1 against Burnley on Saturday afternoon. In both games, Chelsea threw away a lead.

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The game couldn’t have started much better for Chelsea. After just 4 minutes, a rapid move saw Moises Caicedo pick out Pedro Neto’s clever run with a superb through ball.

The Portuguese winger whipped a low cross in for the in form Joao Pedro, who bundled the ball in. The crowd were roaring, and everyone expected a comfortable win with some nice football along the way. But it didn’t work out that way.

Chelsea threw it away late on

Andrey Santos looks disappointed. (Photo by Jasper Wax/Getty Images)

Burnley started to find their feet in the game and after Wesley Fofana got sent off around 70 minutes for his second yellow card offence, it looked inevitable that the away side would find the equaliser – which they did in stoppage time.

Chelsea’s lack of discipline has been spoken about a lot, and pundit Owen Hargreaves believes he has a theory on why it’s happening.

Hargreaves puts it down to inexperience

Hargreaves said: “You know what, Chelsea are not even a nasty team, some teams back in the day were properly nasty, got nasty red cards, they’re all quite silly red cards the ones they have got.

“I think it’s inexperience. Again, it goes back to recruitment. They spent so much money on this squad, they’ve got some brilliant attacking players.

“The centre-back position and the goalkeeper they need to address, you need experience in there. You think they had Thiago Silva, one of the best and they just let him go for free.

“They’ve got all these talented young players, but I don’t think having just young players in the centre-back position is the right decision.”