Liam Rosenior stated he had reached an settlement with Chelsea to grow to be their subsequent supervisor. Photograph: AFP
LONDON:
Liam Rosenior stated Chelsea’s dramatic fightback from two targets right down to beat West Ham 3-2 on Saturday confirmed his facet have one thing “particular”.
Rosenior’s facet trailed to first-half targets from Jarrod Bowen and Crysencio Summerville at Stamford Bridge.
However Chelsea ignored the half-time jeers from their indignant followers, staging a superb revival after the break.
Joao Pedro diminished the deficit earlier than Marc Cucurella headed the equaliser.
For the primary time within the Premier League period, Chelsea got here from two down at half-time to win due to their captain as Fernandez netted in stoppage-time.
“My greatest studying is there is a spirit, a battle and a resilience on this group that I actually, actually like,” Rosenior stated.
“We do not have many coaching classes, however we spoke about reacting positively to setbacks. All of that was there within the second half, which wasn’t there within the first half.
“We have had so many video games in a brief area of time. I used to be petrified of a scarcity of vitality and never vitality or lack of utility, however I felt our decision-making was actually poor within the first half. When to maintain the ball, once we pressed, we had been simply too far off it.
“West Ham had been by far the higher workforce. We had a response at half-time. The response within the second half tells me that we have got one thing actually, actually particular right here if I can utilise the squad within the appropriate approach.”
Chelsea climbed to fourth within the Premier League as Rosenior grew to become solely the fourth English supervisor to win his first three Premier League video games after Bobby Gould, Sam Allardyce and Craig Shakespeare.
Rosenior has overseen six wins from seven video games in all competitions since arriving from Strasbourg to interchange Enzo Maresca.
The spotlight of Rosenior’s spectacular begin had come on Wednesday when the Blues fought again from 2-1 right down to beat Napoli 3-2 in Italy, securing a spot within the Champions League final 16.
However this was arguably much more eye-catching than that success, given how Rosenior turned the tide after Chelsea’s wretched first half.
Rosenior’s resolution to make three half-time substitutions proved decisive as Chelsea stormed again.
“I assumed individually, collectively, our first-half efficiency was nowhere close to the extent that it wanted to be and needs to be,” he stated.
“The people got here off after which folks will take a look at them. That wasn’t on them. It was a collective. There was a collective poor efficiency within the first half.
“These gamers know with me, I make early adjustments. It does not imply that abruptly they’re out of my ideas in any respect.
“It was only a actually torpid efficiency within the first half, however the second half was the whole lot I needed to see.”
