Chelsea manager Alonso voiced frustration after the latest match, noting that while Rogers, Palmer and Joao Pedro have been effective offensively this season, the Blues still need to find defensive solutions.
Alonso said: "We had 1 oregon 2 bully chances to get the winner, but you're inactive open. Not happy. We tin bash better. We got what we deserved."
He added: "We request to beryllium much coagulated and beryllium much controlled. [We have] caller players and caller staff. This is the process. In a fewer months I'm definite we'll beryllium capable to power better."
Regarding his tactical shift to a back four, Alonso explained that the change was not a fix for the team’s defensive issues: "It's astur the illustration of the players. "
He continued: "You tin accidental it was backmost 3 oregon four, truthful it's astur the prime of the players, their qualities, wherever they play better."
On the use of Malo Gusto, Alonso remarked: "Today we played with Malo [Gusto], helium was playing successful bully positions, trying to find him and connected the close linking with different players, truthful it wasn't that overmuch of a alteration for me."
He described the halftime adjustment as a "tactical" decision to take Hato off, adding that he would later elaborate on what is needed to address Chelsea’s problems.
"It's each possibly entertaining, but I anticipation that 1 time you accidental it was a boring crippled and we triumph and we don't springiness these entertaining moments," Alonso added. "But for definite it benignant of repeats immoderate patterns that we are making."
He warned that resolving the issues would require time or specific moments: "It volition instrumentality clip oregon it volition instrumentality moments to hole them erstwhile we get the pb and you inactive request to beryllium competing and not to springiness the accidental truthful easy for them to travel back. Especially successful the archetypal goal, we tin bash overmuch better. "
Alonso also criticized the ease with which opponents gained momentum: "It was excessively brushed to springiness them this anticipation due to the fact that until past we were controlling, we were creating chances, but that momentum that we had changed the temper and the people of the crippled and it's thing that we request to beryllium talking [about], we code and we volition get better, but it's having an interaction connected our performances astatine the moment."
Looking ahead, concerns remain about the upcoming trip to Brentford on Friday, the final match before the three‑week international break, given the Bees’ reputation for danger from set‑pieces.
It's not conscionable set‑pieces, though. Chelsea person conceded the bulk of the goals from unfastened play, which is thing Alonso acknowledged.
"Overall, I deliberation that we are attacking amended than defending successful each part," helium continued.
He summed up the challenge: "We cognize that it's a large taxable and a large taxable for us. For definite it's conscionable 4 games, but the dynamic successful presumption of conceding, I don't similar it and we request to bash overmuch better. Open play, set-pieces, agelong balls, this toughness, this competitory sense, we tin bash better."
Individual performances have drawn criticism, with some supporters targeting Malo Gusto, whose substitution was celebrated by his own fans at Stamford Bridge.
Meanwhile, the absence of injured Moises Caicedo has left Chelsea appearing short of quality and numbers in midfield.
Monaco pulled the plug on Chelsea’s £47m deal to sign midfielder Lamine Camara on deadline day, having previously pursued Roma’s Manu Kone and Fulham’s Sander Berge as alternatives.
Key defensive acquisition Maxence Lacroix was left out on Saturday, and none of the defensive options have excelled this season, although the attack remains in blistering form.
Alonso conceded that resolving these issues will fall to him during training, with no further opportunities to bring in players until the January transfer window.
Sincity Press Staff
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