Chelsea dropped more points from a winning position as they were held by Burnley (Picture: Getty)
Chelsea’s Robert Sanchez was accused of making a ‘stupid’ error and branded ‘non-league’ quality by Jamie O’Hara in the wake of Saturday’s 1-1 draw against Burnley.
The Blues looked on course for a routine win when Joao Pedro continued his fine run of form by opening the scoring in the fourth minute.
Liam Rosenior’s side failed to build on that early goal, however, and ultimately dropped two vital points when Zian Flemming headed home an injury time equaliser.
The Chelsea manager blamed an unnamed player for failing to mark the Dutch striker from the corner that led to the late leveller, but O’Hara felt Chelsea’s goalkeeper had been guilty of an even more basic error just minutes earlier.
Having claimed possession of the ball in the 85th minute Sanchez, rather than opting to take the sting out of the game, opted to try and launch a quick counter attack by clearing the ball up field towards Pedro who had clearly been suffering with cramp.
‘How old is (Robert) Sanchez?’ O’Hara asked talkSPORT co-host Jason Cundy. ‘He’s not young, is he. He’s got plenty of experience.’
As Cundy tried to respond, O’Hara continued: ‘In the 85th minute, the ball comes to him. All you do, go down. Hold onto it.
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‘What does he do?’ Cundy asked. ‘He boots it straight to a Burnley player, and they’re back on it!” O’Hara replied.
‘He’s done it twice. I’m looking at him going ‘What is he doing?’
‘That ain’t about being young, that’s about being stupid!’
Cundy agreed, adding: ‘Catch it, go down, kill the clock. He boots it to Joao Pedro, who’s pulling up with cramp. What’s he going to do when he gets it? It’s 3v1.
Robert Sanchez was criticised following Chelsea’s draw against Burnley (Picture: Getty)
‘When if it’s the perfect pass, what’s he going to do? It’s 3v1.’
O’Hara continued: ‘You get hold of it, you go down, get the team up and then you boot it into the corner, right? You’ve wasted two minutes.
‘That stuff there, right there, is where Chelsea are just ridiculous all the time. It’s like non-league stuff.’
Rosenior, meanwhile, said he is learning who he can and cannot rely on after Chelsea had Wesley Fofana sent off before throwing away another lead.
Chelsea had four central defenders on the pitch at that point on Burnley’s equaliser but none of them were anywhere near Flemming as he met James Ward-Prowse’s cross.
It formed part of a damning verdict on a display showing alarming parallels with the failure to finish off Leeds when 2-0 up here in their last outing, while Fofana’s red card – shown for a second booking for a late tackle on Ward-Prowse – proved that the team’s disciplinary problems have not gone away.
Liam Rosenior claimed Chelsea ‘set fire’ to more Premier League points (Picture: Getty)
‘That wasn’t on Wesley,’ said Rosenior of his team’s collapse. ‘That was on our performance. From the first goal, we lacked incision when we had control. I want us to create wave after wave of attacks. We were too safe in our possession.
‘We knew their biggest threat with Ward-Prowse on the pitch was set plays. We went as big as we possibly could because that was the only way they could score with 10 men. We still don’t see it out.
‘We’ve set fire to four points from two home games. It’s not good enough for a club of this level for me to say we were the better team.
‘I’m learning about the players. I’m learning about the people you can lean on when things aren’t going your way and you need to see a game out. That’s something we need to address very quickly.’
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