Rio Ferdinand was on BT Sport’s coverage of Chelsea’s 1-0 loss to Dortmund, and he was critical of the club’s transfer strategy after the Blues missed a host of chances tonight.
“Chelsea spent all this money and didn’t get a number nine in the team, that’s a problem” the former Man U defender pointed out as they assessed the result.
We know what he means. Chelsea created a host of chances tonight, and there are people out there saying there was “nothing more they could have done” – well one thing they could have done is buy a striker, or at least put on the the bench.
You can see Rio make his point in the clip embedded here:
Ultimately we should have had a goal at least tonight even with the team on the pitch. But the fact we will soon be sitting several wingers on the bench without a striker in the squad at all is surely a symptom of bad planning somewhere along the line.