New system, same problems - Alonso not happy with 'soft' Chelsea

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It was a familiar story for the Premier League's top scorers.Chelsea's entertaining 2-2 draw with Hull on Saturday means the Blues have now found the net 10 times this season - but they have also conceded two or more goals in each of their opening four league matches for the first time in 11 years.Only Crystal Palace and Ipswich Town have conceded more than Chelsea's nine goals in the top flight so far this season.The issue predates manager Xabi Alonso's arrival. We can do better.

We got what we deserved."We need to be more solid and be more controlled. [We have] new players and new staff. "You can say it was back three or four, so it's about the choice of the players, their qualities, where they play better."Today we played with Malo [Gusto], he was playing in good positions, trying to find him and on the right linking with other players, so it wasn't that much of a change for me."It was a "tactical" decision to take Hato off at half-time, he continued, before going into more detail about what it will take to fix Chelsea's issues.

"It was too soft to give them this hope because until then we were controlling, we were creating chances, but that momentum that we had changed the mood and the score of the game and it's something that we need to be talking [about], we address and we will get better, but it's having an impact on our performances at the moment."There will be concerns going into the trip to Brentford on Friday, the last match before the three-week international break, given that the Bees are known to be dangerous at set-pieces.It's not just set-pieces, though. For sure it's just four games, but the dynamic in terms of conceding, I don't like it and we need to do much better.