Brighton vs. Chelsea: Liam Rosenior uses one word to suggest reason behind abysmal Premier League form

Chelsea caput manager Liam Rosenior has reiterated that "moments" are the quality betwixt his broadside winning and losing Premier League matches.

The Blues are presently preparing to look Brighton & Hove Albion successful a pivotal fixture astatine the Amex Stadium connected Tuesday night.

Saturday's 1-0 decision astatine location to Manchester United represented the 5th nonaccomplishment successful six top-fight matches.

As a result, Chelsea are astatine hazard of missing retired connected European qualification and adjacent dropping into the bottommost fractional of the Premier League table.

At a property league connected Monday, it was highlighted that Chelsea are connected a tally of 67 shots without scoring a extremity successful the apical flight.

Rosenior says "moments" are costing Chelsea

While accepting that Chelsea indispensable commencement winning shot matches by immoderate means necessary, the Englishman feels that a operation of his players not being ruthless and atrocious luck person counted against them.

He told reporters: "Again, erstwhile we spell through, I don't privation to speech for excessively long. What I'm saying is we bash a batch of accusation gathering, we bash a batch of data, we analyse the games. A batch of it comes down to moments.

"The Manchester United crippled sums it up, they've had 1 changeable connected target. Well, we've had 10 men and it ends up successful our net. Sometimes we person to marque definite that successful the cardinal moments we enactment switched on, and we haven't done that, and past what happens?

"The effect changes the flow, the assurance of the squad drops if you're losing a crippled against immoderate team, and we person to marque definite going into the remainder of the play that we support the backmost doorway unopen and springiness ourselves a accidental by scoring the archetypal extremity successful the game."

Does Rosenior person a point?

With regards to the Man United game, Rosenior is close to consciousness that Chelsea would person prevailed connected different day.

Man United scored with 1 changeable from 4 attempts, portion Chelsea failed to nett from 21 shots and deed the woodwork connected 3 occasions.

A wonder-save from Jordan Pickford stopped Chelsea from equalising astatine Everton earlier a 3-0 defeat, portion lone the tightest of offside calls prevented Marc Cucurella from giving the Blues the pb against Manchester City, again earlier a 3-0 reverse.

Nevertheless, Chelsea indispensable absorption connected their responses to near-misses if they are to marque immoderate advancement nether Rosenior. All teams squander opportunities and person luck number against them passim a season.