[Tim Stillman] Just spoke to Jonas Eidevall. ‘When you play Chelsea you cannot turn the ball over in midfield and we do it so often today.’ I asked whether it was a gameplan failure or execution failure. ‘When you have a performance like this it is always the coach.’
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…’Adds that the delayed kickoff inconsequential. ‘Let me be very clear, that has nothing to do with it. It is the same for both teams. We have to take full accountability for our performance because it is not good enough.’
Our midfield gets away with a lot. The obvious criticism would be that they rarely follow through after the initial shot from our forwards and that’s caused a lot of missed chances this season already. Not sure if they’re under instruction but lately they’ve not really been correctly positioned to stifle the counter on corners.
I guess it seems straightforward enough to blame the defence when we fail to keep a clean sheet and the attack when we fail to score 🤷♀️
OK I like that he took responsibility but when the midfield is doing what they did today that is one of those things that is very clearly on the player: they had options to pass t9 they read the path of the ball wrong multiple times, they passed wide for no reason, and they had loose touches all game. A coach can motivate his players and put them in the right position and maybe he didn’t motivate well enough but a lot of the technical issues are simply on the player and no one else.
Basically same as every season. If Walti is out or has a bad game we fall apart. Sadly this game came when Pelova’s form has dropped too. Catley has also been dreadful lately, so Walti had to cover the gaps she was leaving behind too. Most of chelseas goals came because they exploited that side.