It has been some start to life as a Premier League manager for Liam Rosenior.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s thrilling comeback win against West Ham<\/a> was Chelsea<\/a>‘s third league win in a row since the 41-year-old replaced Enzo Maresca at the start of January.<\/p>\n And, in his biggest test to date, it was his drastic half-time substitutions that led to the Blues recovering from 2-0 down to win 3-2 and moved them into the top four.<\/p>\n After making seven changes from their midweek Champions League win in Napoli<\/a>, a limp first-half display allowed relegation-threatened West Ham<\/a> to deservedly take control.<\/p>\n But, making three half-time changes, Rosenior inspired a comeback in which substitutes Marc Cucurella and Joao Pedro hauled Chelsea<\/a> level with a goal apiece – before Enzo Fernandez’s dramatic stoppage-time winner.<\/p>\n Criticism can be levelled at Chelsea<\/a> for a poor first half in which they were booed off, fully deserved to be two goals down, and raised further questions about the quality of their squad.<\/p>\n After the match, Rosenior played down the importance of his substitutions, instead crediting the mentality of the players since his arrival.<\/p>\n “My biggest learning is there’s a spirit and a fight and a resilience in this group that I really, really like,” he said. “I’ve demanded that from the first day of stepping in. <\/p>\n “We haven’t had many training sessions, but we’ve spoken about reacting positively to setbacks. <\/p>\n “We’ve spoken about reactions to losing the ball, pressing, energy, intensity. All of that was there in the second half, which wasn’t there in the first half. I don’t put that just down to the changes I made.”<\/p>\n Overall, Rosenior’s early reign, now four weeks old, has been characterised by grinding out results and impactful in\u2011game adjustments. <\/p>\n His predecessor Maresca ended his tenure after a breakdown in relations with the ownership and having dropped a league\u2011high 15 points from winning positions – prompting frequent criticism of his mid-match decisions.<\/p>\n Former Chelsea<\/a> winger Pat Nevin told BBC Radio 5 Live: “Liam Rosenior went back to not exactly Chelsea<\/a>‘s best team, but what Chelsea<\/a> knew and the system they feel comfortable in. It now feels like tactical genius because they have won.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been some start to life as a Premier League manager for Liam Rosenior. Saturday’s thrilling comeback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-450507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}