Match of the Day last night focused largely on Southampton’s performance – quite rightly – but they also spoke a little about Chelsea in the defeat, and our mysterious tendency to lose to weaker teams.
Ian Wright tried to explain how a team that can beat Spurs at the weekend could lose consecutive games to Bournemouth and Southampton at home,
“They’ve got the players capable of [winning these games]… but they need the confidence and creativity.”
He’s hit the nail on the head there. Once again it was a lack of creative touches in the final third that prevented us scoring, forcing us to gradually commit more and more men forward until we were caught out.
You can see the full clip here:
