Graham Potter urges Chelsea to take responsibility on the road

Chelsea boss Graham Potter accepts his side must learn to cope with opposition players being prepared to "run through a brick wall" to beat them and then asking for their shirts after they limped to a 1-1 draw at Nottingham Forest.

The Blues' poor away form continued as they were second best at the City Ground, despite going ahead through Raheem Sterling's first Premier League goal since August.

They were outplayed in the second half and saw Forest deservedly level through Serge Aurier as they made it four games without a win on the road in all competitions.

Both under Potter and his predecessor Thomas Tuchel they have struggled in tough environments and Potter knows that is something they have to learn to deal with.

"That's the Premier League for you," he said. "Away from home teams are not going to make it easy for you.

"On one hand you have players asking if they can have the players' shirts and before the game they are thinking they are going to run through a brick wall to prove they can be good enough to beat Chelsea.

"With that comes the responsibility on us. We have to be humble enough to know that is the challenge we face and we have to do better."

The visitors had the chance to take the game by the scruff of the neck after Sterling's early opener, but failed to capitalise and in the end were perhaps fortunate to leave with a point.

"Overall when the game was controlled for us in the first half I don't think we did well enough," Potter said.

"Our level wasn't good enough, we didn't move fast enough, didn't have enough movement.

"You have to credit the opposition - they played a good version of themselves. I think it would have been unfair if we had taken more than a point.

"You look at their recent results here - they make