Ray Wilkins "Disappointed" with Continued Set Piece Fragility

Chelsea assistant manager Ray Wilkins is "disappointed" Chelsea conceded another goal from a set piece during last night's 4-1 win over Southend in the FA Cup.

Adam Barnett was allowed to time and space in the box to power his header past Petr Cech to give the Shrimpers a shock lead.

Chelsea used their much talked about zonal marking system throughout the game, but it failed to stop them looking shaky when the ball was played into the box.

"It's disappointing, but it is always disappointing when any side concedes at a set piece because you work extremely hard to keep them out," admitted Wilkins.

"But, with this group of guys what you always expect is that they will work extremely hard to rectify that in the next game they play.

"We will try everything to get it right, zonal, man to man, sticking a coach in front of it, we will try the lot until we get the right solution."

But Wilkins was keen to praise the Blues' performance and spirit: "I thought the brand of football we played was first class and we moved the ball very quickly.

"We created a number of chances and had it not been for the Southend boys defending so valiantly we would have got ourselves back in the game a little earlier.

"Our spirit has been fantastic and you can see from the pace with which they played and how they celebrated the goals that they have a great spirit amongst them.

"They are a super bunch of guys to work with and the atmosphere around the place was one where we wanted to put Sunday right and we did that this evening."

Joe Cole limped off with an injury with 15 minutes left to play and Wilkins expressed his hope that the damage wasn't too serious.

"We don't know what that is to be honest. He twisted badly as he went into the air and whether that has been generated from his lower back into his knee I don't know but we will assess the situation when we get back in the morning and see how we go.

"I sincerely hope it is nothing too grave and we can get Joe up and running shortly."