Just 20 touches: A 5/10 tabloid rating looks a bit generous for Chelsea star vs Ipswich | OneFootball

A player who had just 20 touches in Chelsea’s draw with Ipswich yesterday has actually been given a generous match rating.

The news comes off the back of Chelsea only managing to draw 2-2 at home with Ipswich Town yesterday, a team who are destined to be in the Championship again next season.

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One BBC pundit has pinned the blame on the players for the draw yesterday, saying that they have to take a long hard look at themselves after that poor performance.

And head coach Enzo Maresca has also picked out two of his players for making some mistakes in the game which he believes was not good enough and cost them.

Overall though it was so poor, and blame really must be shared between the head coach, the manager, and those who have built an unbalanced squad at Chelsea that severely lacks quality experience and balance.

One player who was terrible, and to be honest that was most of them in blue yesterday, was striker Nicolas Jackson.

The stats do not look good

Nicolas Jackson in Chelsea training. (Photo by Dave Jones / Getty)

Football Fancast ran the stats on Jackson’s performance and it’s not good at all. He actually had fewer touches than goalkeeper Robert Sanchez, who had 35.

Jackson got rated 5/10 by The Express, for a very poor performance but really that looks like a generous rating to me.

The 23-year-old had as many as five shots in the match, with all five of those shots being off-target, as well as hitting the post from a tight angle at point-blank range. Jackson only managed 20 touches in the game, completing just eight of his 11 passes and losing seven of his 11 duels – ground and aerial.

Chelsea had 19 shots from inside the box, had 55 touches inside the box and put 46 crosses into the penalty area against Ipswich, but Jackson failed to make an impact with all of that action.