(Image): Data shows Rosenior and his striker are letting Fofana off the hook too easily<\/p>\n
Joao Pedro has joined his manager in claiming that the red card for Chelsea yesterday didn\u2019t change things much \u2013 we beg to differ.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Wesley Fofana\u2019s red card was a turning point in Chelsea\u2019s draw with Burnley, but both manager Liam Rosenior and goalscorer Joao Pedro have tried to diminish it by pointing out that the team should have scored a second before then.<\/p>\n That\u2019s true \u2013 but you also can\u2019t overstate how the red changed the game.<\/p>\n The momentum graph showing the swing after the red card.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the red card made things difficult but we still had enough about us to get the win. Before the red card, we should have put the game to bed,\u201d the striker said to the club\u2019s official website.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWhen you go to a man less, of course things get more difficult. I didn\u2019t really see the incident too clearly, but we need to learn how to manage the game in those situations because, regardless of having a man less, we are Chelsea and these type of games at home we have to win.\u201d<\/p>\n Well Joao Pedro may not have seen it but we did, and we\u2019ll tell you now it was a silly tackle to make in a situation where it didn\u2019t need to be made. Of course as Rosenior has said the lack of a second goal when we were on top cost us just as much \u2013 but there\u2019s no denying it changed the game. Just look at the momentum meter above.<\/p>\n JP was also frustrated by the way that his team hadn\u2019t scored the goals they needed to seal three points \u2013 but we think he\u2019s wrong about that.<\/a><\/p>\n Wesley Fofana was went off after 72 minutes yesterday, and the game changed in that moment. But Rosenior insisted that the draw wasn\u2019t down to him. He had something else to blame.<\/a><\/p>\nJoao Pedro claims red card wasn\u2019t the major factor in Chelsea draw<\/h2>\n
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