Rosenior names the “tactical issue” which cost Chelsea crucial goal against Newcastle | OneFootball

Liam Rosenior has just spoken to the media after Chelsea’s defeat against Newcastle, where he blamed a “tactical issue” for the goal his team conceded.

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Chelsea had started well against Newcastle in their game this evening, but gave away such a soft goal to the visiting team, as the Blues parted in the middle.

Liam Rosenior was asked about what went wrong to hand two onrushing attackers the freedom of the middle of the pitch to score.

“There’s a tactical issue. We press in a different way to most teams, it’s a new way of pressing. Mistakes happen,” Rosenior said.

“They had nothing but we gave them a goal. It feels like every mistake we’re making is ending up in the back of the net.”

Mistakes are not excuses

That idea that “it’s bad luck that every mistake we make ends up being a goal” is something we heard a lot under Enzo Maresca. This isn’t just a spell of things not going our way. You make your own luck, or in this case, you make your own lack of it.

A mistake that bad deserves to be punished by a goal, there wasn’t anything freakish about this, or the Filip Jorgensen blunder in midweek, or most of the other errors we’ve seen.

In other news…

You can imagine what the full time reaction to this huge defeat was…

The craziest moment of this half came before a ball was kicked – when the referee ended in Chelsea’s pre-match huddle.

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