Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta admits they must improve defensively after last night's 1-1 draw at Champions League opponents Zenit St Petersburg.
It looked like the visitors had battled hard to secure first place in their Champions League group when Timo Werner netted with five minutes of normal time remaining against Zenit, but there was a sting in the tail as an injury-time thunderbolt denied them a 3-2 victory and, with it, top spot.
"It hurts to concede a goal in the 94th minute when we have led twice," said Azpilicueta afterwards.
"In the first half we played very good for 15 minutes, but then we dropped our level and we could have even been 3-1 down before half-time. There were a few minutes where we lost the pace of the game.
"We had a good reaction in the second half and we were leading with three minutes to go, so it hurts a lot to concede. Zenit have very talented players with individual quality. They played with freedom and found spaces.
"We are normally a team that is quite solid. We don't concede many chances or many goals, but in the last two games we have conceded six goals and that isn't good enough. We have to sort this problem out."
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