Liam Rosenior is fighting to avoid wasting his job as Chelsea manager with is position under review following last night’s calamitous 3-0 defeat against Brighton.
The Premier League giants had intended to analyse the performance of the person they hired to interchange Enzo Maresca in January come the top of the season, but a disastrous run of form has modified the image dramatically.
A fifth successive defeat without scoring a goal has all but ended hopes of Champions League qualification while the the club’s involvement in Europe was led to the round of the last 16 following a chastening 8-2 aggregate thrashing by the hands of holders PSG.
Rosenior is more likely to remain in place for this weekends FA Cup semi-final against Leeds United but an eighth loss in nine games in all competitions could have disastrous ramifications.
In accordance with the Each day Mail, the primary team squad have been left confused by their latest manager’s instructions, especially as he commonly alters tactics during games.
The previous Reading and Fulham defender’s ‘intense’ nature can also be said to have represented a priority even when talk of getting lost the dressing room is premature.
‘Liam is a extremely nice guy and everybody wants him to succeed,’ one insider explained. ‘But the truth of the situation is that lots of the players are struggling to determine what he wants from them.
‘He’s intense and he overloads them with information, he does lots of individual work on top of what he does with the group. It’s difficult for them to follow and it makes things worse when he modifies those instructions during games.
‘Everyone seems to be frustrated and so they know that results needs to be higher but they don’t feel like they understand what’s being asked from them and so they don’t feel like that situation goes to vary.’
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Liam Rosenior – 17/20
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Oliver Glasner – 9/2
Xavi Hernandez – 6/1
Roberto De Zerbi – 15/2
Marco Silva – 9/1
Unai Emery – 10/1
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Rosenior, meanwhile, says he must discover which players he can trust after delivering a scathing assessment of his team’s woeful defeat at one other of his former clubs.
Travelling fans turned on their head coach because the Blues continued their losing sequence with a defeat that has rubber-stamped their worst league run since 1912.
Rosenior endured explicit chants from his own supporters during a dismal display on the Amex Stadium and, alongside his players, faced further hostility at full-time.
‘I understand their frustration,’ he said of the fans. ‘The buck stops with me. I even have thick skin and I understand why the fans are frustrated.
‘I’m frustrated with the performances we’re putting in. I’ve just got to maintain working hard with the staff, with the players.
‘But what I do have to do is absolutely have a look at how we go about games, the personnel of the team, who I can trust and depend on in difficult moments, because not enough players showed that.’
Without injured attacking trio Cole Palmer, Estevao and Joao Pedro, the toothless Blues did not register an attempt heading in the right direction and remain seven points adrift of fifth-placed Liverpool, having played a game more.
Rosenior warned his squad they don’t belong at Stamford Bridge if they can’t handle pressure and criticism.
‘I’m not throwing anyone under the bus,’ he said. ‘That was an unacceptable performance, and I’m at the pinnacle of that.
‘We’re playing for Chelsea, I’m managing Chelsea, the criticism and pressure comes with the football club.
‘Should you can’t handle that then you definitely shouldn’t be here. It’s so simple as that. That’s something that should be addressed this week however it also must be addressed in the long run.
‘We’d like to make the proper decisions for the team for an enormous game on Sunday and we’ll do the perfect we will to show it around.’
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