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Ian Wright highlights one thing that Chelsea should have done differently against Bournemouth

Former Premier League striker Ian Wright has said that Chelsea should have utilised their creative players more in Premier League defeat to Bournemouth.

The Blues were unable to break down a solid Cherries' defence, especially after Dan Gosling's 84th minute goal.

The strike was originally ruled out for offside, but the video assistant referee stepped in to correctly overturn the decision. The defeat is Chelsea's third in four games.

After the match, Lampard said that his team struggles against defensive teams.

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"I think when you play against West Ham, who are organised and want to stop us playing, Everton organised and want to stop us playing, and Bournemouth who were particularly organised and deep today and want to stop us playing, we have to find another way," he said.

"And we haven’t managed to do that and with that it becomes nerves, it becomes stress in the stadium, within the team, and we haven’t dealt with that well enough."

Speaking on Match of the Day, Ian Wright has highlighted one thing that Chelsea can do in order to increase their creativity against defensive teams.

“With Jorginho and the calibre of the player he is because when you play it into him, he does this (pass through the lines) and they’re away," he said.

"This is what Bournemouth did though, they gave people like Rudiger the ball. Jorginho is in a position where he can’t receive it and this is what was happening. Second-half, Zouma, can he put that into Mason Mount? I don’t think they were doing any of this today, he then gives it away.

“Here’s another example, just play it into Jorginho. I think that Mason Mount, Tammy Abraham, Hudson-Odoi when he came on, they were starved off the ball. In the end, I think Chelsea were a victim of themselves. They didn’t give it to the players that can pass the ball.”

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