Chelsea manager Frank Lampard says his side threw two points away after conceding an injury-time equalizer in their 3-3 draw with Southampton at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea threw away two leads on Saturday as they were made to settle for a draw at Stamford Bridge. Lampard points out the issue in his backline that is happening again and again since the start of the season.
He said that his players were making unnecessarily short passes in the second half when they were leading. He is frustrated about the fact that his boys should have killed the match before any comeback could be achieved by the visitors.
The Blues boss seemed very irritated about the kind of mistakes happening and says that they need to work hard in the problems plaguing in defense if they want to go for titles.
‘I thought the second half was pretty clear cut. They wanted to put us under pressure in our own half, we tried to make too many short passes in our own half, which gave them the possibility to try and win it back there.
That made it much more difficult to have the control we had in the first half. When you get 3-2 ahead against a team like Southampton, what you really want is to see out the game, so that’s the disappointing factor from our point of view.
‘There’s certainly a game management element to it when you want to be able to see out a game, kill it off. But we turned the ball over which led to the free-kick, then it’s a second ball, so there are a lot of elements to it.
You can recreate it in training, you can talk about it a lot, but it’s disappointing obviously when it happens,’ said Lampard as per the official Chelsea site reports.
Chelsea’s £53million striker from Bundesliga, Timo Werner opened his goal-scoring account by netting two superb goals in just 30minutes of the match to give Chelsea a 2-0 lead after half an hour.
But errors in defence cost three easy points, leaving the coach scratching his head as to how his side didn’t secure the valuable points.
Danny Ings got Southampton back into the game as he was left unmarked and given total freedom to go through on goal, before rounding Chelsea keeper, Kepa and pushing into the empty net.
