Norwich City manager Alex Neil rued his side’s profligacy and Diego Costa’s controversial goal as Chelsea came away from Carrow Road with a 2-1 Premier League success.
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The visitors were off to the ideal start as they took the lead in the first minute.
“Players are clever. They know they deserved more than what they got and hopefully they can take great heart from that performance and endeavour into the next game”.
Rahman’s clumsy header back towards goal on Saturday allowed Shane Long to nip in and loft the ball over Thibaut Courtois into the back of the net but fortunately for the 21-year-old Ghanian worldwide the Blues went on to grab all three points.
Norwich had a great chance to pull one back in the 52nd minute.
Norwich have slumped into the Premier League relegation zone following the defeat, while Chelsea have now won their last three successive league matches.
“We’re disappointed, really frustrated, but it is what it is”.
“Now with the ambition of Chelsea we must set a new target and see what we can do in the direction of Europe”, Hiddink said.
Up front, Diego Costa is likely to start, but should Hiddink chose this game to rest him then Bertrand Traore has earned the right to slot in as his understudy. But before that I think we should have killed it off already.
“We didn’t want to go into a battle but they forced us into one because we were a bit sloppy”. The second half was totally different and tough but it feels good to dig in and grind out the result in the end.
It is also notable Norwich striker Steven Naismith has scored six goals in seven EPL appearances against Chelsea and that the Canaries earned a draw in their last home game against West Ham. We have to win games to get us out of there.
“I don’t think when that’s a continuous thing that keeps happening, I don’t think it boils down to just luck”.
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A fortuitous deflected shot from Danny Drinkwater and a brilliantly-executed first goal of the season for Andy King on the stroke of halftime seemed to have put the Foxes in control after an early setback.
