Lescott shoulders the blame

"We are all professionals and can take criticism. No one was pointing the finger at me in the dressing room but I point the finger at myself because I know I can do better".

In a rare moment of Premier League ‘Mea culpa’ the brutally honest England international declared that he was pointing the finger at himself for the Clint Dempsey goal that sent the Londoners home with a point.

And the 27-year-old confessed that the shine of his first goal for the Blues had been rubbed clean away by Fulham’s late revival in the 2-2 draw.

The Blues were denied a seventh straight home win and dropped their first points of the season at the City of Manchester Stadium thanks to second half strikes from Damien Duff and the aforementioned Dempsey.

Those efforts wiped out the advantage given to the home side by Lescott and Martin Petrov and left the central defender less chipper than he might have otherwise been.

“It was probably my fault that Dempsey got a header and that is something I will try to address,” he declared.