Chelsea v Newcastle recap, video highlights<\/a><\/p>\nThe Blues were flustered by a new-look Newcastle midfield. The Magpies had a very active group without a traditional defensive midfielder and so organization was the key to limiting Chelsea\u2019s danger.<\/p>\n
And Anthony Gordon punished the Blues on a first-half counterattack to make sure the Magpies had further impetus to simply deny Chelsea chances.<\/p>\n
So how did Rosenior see it? The boss looked upset with Newcastle\u2019s second half pace but also had to be dismayed by the lack of solutions in their final third.<\/p>\n
Liam Rosenior reaction \u2014 What did Chelsea boss say after home loss to Newcastle?<\/p>\n
Thoughts on the game as a whole? \u201cFrustration \u2014 the first 15-20 minutes we dominate the game, attack. Waves of attack. We switch off on the press and it\u2019s a really poor goal. It gives them a goal and something to hold onto. The rest of the game was attack versus defense and credit to Eddie and Newcastle. They sat back and we didn\u2019t have the freshness in attack.\u201d<\/p>\n
What happened on the Newcastle goal? \u201cThere was an issue in cover and understanding on the press. That\u2019ll come. It\u2019s new in terms of what we\u2019re asking the players to do but we\u2019re talking about one moment when the rest of the game our press was very good. The problem with us wasn\u2019t without the ball. The problem was the final third. We got there many times. Created chances but weren\u2019t ruthless enough to take them.\u201d<\/p>\n
What went wrong in the final third? \u201cI just felt every time the ball bounced in the box, it fell behind our player instead of in front of them, or they defended it with blocks.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had three wide players who were out. Jamie Gittens who is almost back. Estevao. Pedro Neto was suspended. It\u2019s not an excuse it\u2019s reality.\u201d<\/p>\n
How do you pick up the pieces for PSG? \u201cWe need to assess where the players are at and we need to pick a team that can go out against PSG and play with real intensity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFootball\u2019s really amazing, isn\u2019t it? Up until 15 minutes to go at PSG, winning at Villa in the FA Cup with a changed team. At the moment in the last two games we haven\u2019t managed to take advantage of the moments or the margins.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea boss Liam Rosenior\u2019s reaction will be interesting after his Blues slipped to a second-straight defeat, a rare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-475958","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475958","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=475958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}