“It’s poor” – Shay Given highly critical of Chelsea star after draw with Brentford | OneFootball

Shay Given has slammed Chelsea star Alejandro Garnacho for his role in Brentford’s late equaliser on Saturday night.

The Blues maintained their unbeaten start to the season, but threw two points away after conceding a stoppage time equaliser from a long throw.

Cole Palmer and Moises Caicedo had put Chelsea 2-1 up after a poor first half performance, but the Blues just couldn’t see the game out.

Shay Given slams Alejandro Garnacho

Enzo Maresca made a number of changes to the starting line-up, which wasn’t a surprise given injury issues and the international break.

Despite the changes Garnacho was named amongst the substitutes and came on for his first Chelsea appearance in the second half.

Garnacho made his debut against Brentford. (Photo by Harry Murphy/Getty Images)

Garnacho arrived from Manchester United in the summer in a deal worth £40m, and looked lively going forward when he came on.

However, Garnacho lost his man at the back post for the equaliser, something Given really wasn’t impressed with.

“Chelsea didn’t heed the warnings,” Given told Match Of The Day.

“Keep an eye on Garnacho at the back, I know he’s an attacking player but he had a warning before.

“All Garnacho has to do is mark his man and Brentford don’t score. He switches off and reacts too late. His body shape is all wrong, he’s watching the ball, he should be glued to Carvalho, man-to-man.

“He switches off, he reacts after but it’s too late, the ball is in the back of the net. It’s poor defending, but Brentford deserve credit.”

Chelsea costly defensive errors

It wasn’t just the equaliser that came from poor defending, the opening goal was also as a result of Chelsea being caught out high up the pitch.

Chalobah and Fofana were high up the pitch, and one ball over the top from Jordan Henderson, left Tosin in a one on one situation.

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Despite Tosin’s quality his one on one defending has left a lot to be desired, and he once again looked poor as Kevin Schade cut inside and put the ball into the back of the net.

It will be a concern for Maresca to see Chelsea caught in transition and it’s something they need to tighten up as the season goes on.