Chelsea suffered yet another defeat in the Premier League this time losing to Newcastle United 1-0 away from home.
This is the first time that Chelsea have failed to score on the road for the first time since the opening day of the season and it was a 94th minute goal from Hayden which helped Steven Bruce’s side pick up a hard-fought three points.
The Blues on the better side for almost the whole of that meaning the Magpies won the match courtesy of a sucker punch right at the end of the match.
And speaking after the match, Frank Lampard claimed that Newcastle United wanted to sit back and defend for most of the game which is one of the major reasons why his Chelsea players failed to break down the home side on Saturday.
The manager said: ‘If we don’t score enough goals, a team like Newcastle won’t come out, they’re very organised with what they do, and you’re always open to what happened.
‘We probed, we changed the play, they dropped deep so it’s not easy to run behind them so you have to move the ball from side to side quickly. At times in the first half, maybe that was a little bit slow but in the second half, it wasn’t.
‘When we did attack, there were so many moments where a bit of quality, the final pass, and certainly the finish wasn’t there for us today.
‘We can’t absolutely rely on Tammy Abraham. We have to have goals from across the frontline if we want to bridge the gap upwards. Tammy has been fantastic this season – it didn’t quite come off for him today but that’s football.
‘I can’t complain about anything from the team really. Of course, we don’t want to give headers away in our box, they’re big and that happens but other than that, we gave everything we could to try to win the game.
‘You address on it on the training ground with the players but we can’t practise finishing or entering the final third any more than what we do. We have to be more clinical and the players know that.’
This is not the first time that Chelsea have looked toothless during a match and it’s high time that the manager thinks of bringing in a high-intensity player who can make things work in the final third for the Blues.
While the manager has claimed that there will be movement during the current transfer window but right now most of the talk is of players leaving the club instead of new signings.
