New Chelsea boss Rosenior watches as the Blues see red again

LONDON, Jan ‌7 : Incoming Chelsea manager Liam Rosenior was given some quick lessons in what he needs to do at Stamford Bridge as he watched his new players lose 2-1 at Fulham on Wednesday, with fixing their terrible discipline record at the top of his to-do list.

Television cameras cut to Rosenior sitting high in the stands, looking stony-faced as defender Marc Cucurella trudged off the pitch following a red card for a foul on Harry Wilson, with only a quarter of the game played.

The dismissal took Chelsea's total ‌number of red cards in the league so far this season to five, ‌more than double any other team and a big factor in their struggle to live up to the hype following their Club World Cup victory in the summer.

They have now won only once in nine league games and sit seventh in the Premier League table.

Fulham made their numerical advantage count with Raul Jimenez scoring with a bullet header in the 55th minute and Wilson settling the match in the 81st after Liam Delap had raised Chelsea's hopes with his ‍first league goal for the Blues.

Chelsea interim coach Calum McFarlane - who stepped up from running the club's under-21 side following the departure of Enzo Maresca on January 1 and oversaw a 1-1 draw at Manchester City on Sunday - said the sending off was the game's turning point.

"Any red card affects the game massively," McFarlane told reporters. "Really disappointed because we were starting ​to get into our rhythm so it ‌came at a really bad time for us."

He also said he was concerned by the three yellow cards given to Chelsea players for protesting about Cucurella's sending off. "Three yellow cards after is something we ​need to look at," said McFarlane who himself was booked later in the game for arguing with