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Chelsea's difficult season continued as Mauritio Pochitino's side were held to a two-two draw by Tenman Burnley at the weekend.

There's division towards O'Shea! Oh! And they've done it again!

It's Darrow Shea for Burnley!

There's division among the fans, a billion pound squad yet to gel, and growing pressure on the manager.

So can Chelsea salvage something from their remaining games?

And after all the instability this season, will there be another summer of sweeping change?

I'm Ayahu Akimuelari. Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast.

Okay, joining us today to talk about events at Stamford Bridge.

We have the athletics, Tim Spears, and also our Chelsea writer, Liam Toomey, who is also

part of another podcast on this network straight out of Cobham.

Liam, let's start with you on this Burnley 2-2 at Stanford Bridge.

Manager Maricio Pochiccio Pochicino is talking about the team's lack of hunger.

I mean, that's never good for a

manager to say, is it? Yeah, and it's also striking because you can probably count on one

hand the number of times that Pochitino has called out his players. He's defended them even

when no one else has this season. That seems to have been his, I think that's his style as a coach anyway,

but it's certainly been his approach with this young group

to kind of put his arms around them and act as the lightning rod

for criticism from the outside rather than turning the fire on them.

But I think even he felt that there wasn't any defending what Chelsea did.

I mean, there wasn't any defending on the pitch from Chelsea against 10 man, Burnley.

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