{"id":390180,"date":"2026-01-25T19:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390180\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:54:10","slug":"liam-rosenior-chelsea-manager-continues-positive-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390180\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Rosenior: Chelsea manager continues positive start"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rosenior has undoubtedly kick\u2011started momentum with a favourable run of fixtures that Chelsea<\/a> were largely expected to win.<\/p>\n

Having arrived mid-season, and with two matches per week until at least mid-February – and potentially beyond if Chelsea<\/a> fail to beat Napoli and are forced into a two\u2011legged Champions League play-off – there has been and will continue to be little time to work on the training pitch.<\/p>\n

The Blues therefore still look stylistically similar to the team built by Maresca. They favour a patient, possession-based approach, press high and set up cautiously to prevent opponents counter-attacking.<\/p>\n

However, a key vulnerability remains: set-pieces. Since Rosenior joined Chelsea<\/a>, all five goals they have conceded have come from set-plays – one long throw-in, one deep free-kick and three corners.<\/p>\n

Rosenior has focused on addressing other low-hanging fruit. He has encouraged his squad – the youngest in the Premier League – to be more aggressive, has worked on improving team spirit and has spoken to the players about their ill-discipline.<\/p>\n

Chelsea<\/a> still primarily line up in a 4-2-3-1, but there are signs that, as with his Strasbourg side, they will become more tactically flexible. They adjusted their set-up to face Oliver Glasner’s distinctive 3-4-3 system at Palace.<\/p>\n

Rosenior explained: “I think today was a huge test. I changed the shape of the play. It’s hard to explain – it’s like a semi-four or semi-five at the back with Andrey [Santos] in between.<\/p>\n

“For them to go and put on, from a tactical point of view, the performance that they did in two days makes me very pleased, because pretty much 95% of the press and 95% of the positioning was absolutely perfect. They’re engaged.<\/p>\n

“I think they’re believing in what they’re doing. It’s one game. We have to make sure we’re consistent in every game we play.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rosenior has undoubtedly kick\u2011started momentum with a favourable run of fixtures that Chelsea were largely expected to win.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-390180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}