Joe Cole has called out Chelsea star Tosin Adarabioyo for his ‘clumsy’ error in the 5-1 Champions League win over 10-man Ajax on Wednesday.

Adarabioyo gave away a penalty in the first half after a foul on Raul Moro inside the box, with Wout Weghorst scoring the resulting spot-kick.

The Chelsea defender was then taken off at half-time, with Enzo Maresca replacing the centre-back with Trevoh Chalobah at the break.

Former Chelsea stars Cole and Eidur Gudjohnsen watched the incident on punditry duties for TNT Sports and were critical of Adarabioyo’s mistake.

‘It was clumsy,’ Cole said. ‘In modern football, you cannot dangle a leg. He dangles his leg.

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‘Any of these players now, they feel a little bit contact, they go down. The goalkeeper needs to do better there [too] because Weghorst doesn’t put it into the bottom corner.’

Gudjohnsen added: ‘When you’re a man up, you don’t want to concede...