Why Mauricio Pochettino was 'sorry' as deeply concerning trend threatens to cost him Chelsea job

It was almost an unexpected reception at full-time for Chelsea. Granted, there were some boos around Stamford Bridge but it felt a lot more subdued and reserved than in recent weeks.

Yet Saturday afternoon was one of the Blues' worst results of the season – despite picking up a point. Let's put some much-needed context out there...

Chelsea were at home to – according to the Premier League table – the division's second-worst team. Burnley then have a man sent off towards the end of the first-half. And it got worse for them when the animated Vincent Kompany was also shown a red card for his reaction to Lorenz Assignon's sending off.

However, the boos certainly were not as loud as we have heard after, or sometimes during, recent matches. Mauricio Pochettino called on the supporters to get behind Chelsea's young squad a few days ago and they did that at Stamford Bridge on Saturday afternoon.

The team, however, did not complete their end of the deal. The performance, while at times putting together some slick moves, was not what Pochettino was after. In fact, he was furious with how his players performed while out of possession.

«Sorry, but I am not happy with the performance when we don't have the ball,» a passionate Pochettino explained in his post-match press conference. «If we are able to create chances in the way we did and have the capacity to move and to find all the different ways to penetrate a team that play with a block very deep.

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»They are a very physical team, we need to be strong also and have the capacity to recover the ball