{"id":23937,"date":"2026-02-21T19:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23937"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:49:12","slug":"chelsea-1-1-burnley-red-cards-and-poor-home-form-blues-set-fire-to-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23937","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea 1-1 Burnley: Red cards and poor home form &#8211; Blues &#8216;set fire to points&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Chelsea<\/a> have dropped a league?high 17 points from winning positions at home and 19 in total &#8211; the second?worst record in the Premier League behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> on 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is another area affected not only by red cards but also by an inability to finish teams off and defensive lapses, particularly from set-pieces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Chelsea<\/a> have conceded a league?high 13.54 expected goals from set-pieces this season, resulting in 11 goals against.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is unsurprising, therefore, that the combination of dead?ball specialist Ward?Prowse and an aerial presence such as Flemming contributed to the equaliser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Set plays are massive in the Premier League, they&#8217;re so important. Our record this season, defending set plays, is not at the level required for us to achieve what we want to achieve, and that&#8217;s something I need to address,&#8221; Rosenior said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There may also be a broader mentality issue, which again could be linked to the youthfulness of the squad &#8211; particularly within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Chelsea<\/a>&#8216;s leadership group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Chelsea<\/a> have enough leaders, Rosenior simply replied &#8220;Yes&#8221;, before adding: &#8220;I think there are certain values you need to have in your team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The best teams, the teams that win titles &#8211; which is where we want to get to &#8211; win games 1-0 when they probably haven&#8217;t played at their best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That should have been at least a 1-0 today. Even with 10 men for 25 minutes, that should have been a 1-0 at the least. I know what we need to get there. It&#8217;s not down to youth, it&#8217;s about assessing the players and identifying the ones you can rely on in difficult moments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Chelsea<\/a> were booed off at full?time, and Rosenior&#8217;s reaction may signal the end of a brief period of calm around Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It remains a promising start for the Englishman in his 11 games in charge, but he walked into a club already experiencing a febrile atmosphere, with anti?ownership chants growing louder and fringe protests beginning to move into the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It promises to be an interesting few weeks for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Chelsea<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Arsenal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/aston-villa\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Aston Villa<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/newcastle-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Newcastle<\/a> to come in a tougher run of Premier League fixtures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Chelsea #Burnley #Red #cards #poor #home #form #Blues #set #fire #points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have dropped a league?&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}