Alan Shearer claims Chelsea star “Doesn’t Deserve” to be starting matches for Chelsea
According to BBC pundit Alan Shearer thinks Timo Werner can’t claim he deserves to be starting games for Chelsea at the moment, considering his poor form in front of goal.
The German international has struggled in recent weeks, missing a number of gilt-edge opportunities, and Shearer believes the forward should be asking to take penalties and working extra hard in training to get his confidence back:
“He can’t knock on the manager’s door and say he should be starting matches because when you look at the chances he’s missing, he doesn’t deserve to. History suggests it’s not going to last and it can’t do, both for his sake and Frank Lampard’s sake. It has to change.”
“If I was Werner, I would be straining for the ball every time Chelsea are awarded a penalty. It’s such a great opportunity to get up and running again. You’d be amazed what it does to you, that feeling of seeing the ball hit the net. You grow two feet taller instantly.”
“On the training pitch, I’d be doubling down on work. I would get someone to knock balls into me from little angles, just behind the goal. I’d stand five or six yards out and just roll shots into an empty net. Maybe that sounds simplistic, but I’d do it time and time again, just to build my confidence up. Then I’d bring in a keeper – a first-teamer wouldn’t do it, so I’d rope in someone from the youth team – and do the same thing. It’s about repetition, repetition, repetition.”
Werner’s first season at Stamford Bridge has been a strange one. The 24-year-old looked like an excellent signing in the first couple of months, but his confidence has nosedived as the misses have mounted up. He has now gone eleven matches without scoring.
As Shearer points out, though, it only takes one goal to turn things around, and it wouldn’t be a surprise if the German goes on a scoring streak in the New Year if he can end this goal drought sooner rather than later.