Worst Chelsea performance in a LONG time sums up exactly where the club is under BlueCo ownership Brighton 3 Chelsea 0 https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/worst-Chelsea-performance-in-a-long Debrief The worst 45 minutes (first half) I’ve seen Chelsea play since the Frank Lampard interim stint when 75% of the players were leaving in that summer. It’s no coincidence that I watch a similar performance when 75% of our players WANT to leave in the summer. And then to top that, the second 45 minutes when we improved a bit, was still absolutely abysmal from us. Liam Rosenior needs to go, SD’s need to go with him. And if only we could sack the owners. It’s absolutely embarrassing. You will remember that I reported recently that the feeling in the dressing room is the same as that Lampard interim time, when all players had downed tools and wanted out. It’s just like that now. 80% of them have no respect at all for Rosenior and many of them even joke and laugh about him. He has to go. But as for the game, we were out-classed, out-played, and could not even get close to matching them physically or mentally. They were stronger, quicker, and just wanted it more. We were like fairies. Liam said we were much better than Man United and deserved to win, and we were and did. But that’s because United were crap that day. Look at what happens when we play a team who are up for it and not crap, we completely fold up and the true colours of how bad we are come out. Chelsea have been thrashed by a team who is LEVELS above them. Yes, we had injuries, but come on, nobody is hearing excuses after they have spent £2bn on this squad and cannot backup our injured players. The players were weak minded and have given up. Change the manager if you want any chance of salvaging anything this season, then sort the rest of the shit that you’ve messed up ay my club in the summer. Ratings Manager: Liam Rosenior - 0 What was that starting setup? Oh my. I know he had injuries but come on. We were SO deep and weren’t pressing them high at all in the first half - they had so much freedom. Really weird setup and style of play. Even when it went back to normal in the second half, the players just aren’t playing for him, not one of them. Needs to be sacked TONIGHT. Players: Robert Sanchez - 5 I rated him a ZERO for his kick outs and a 10 for his saves, so a 5 meeting in the middle. If it wasn’t for his saves, we would have conceded 6 goals tonight without a doubt. Malo Gusto - 1 Petulant and poor. Brighton players got in his head and he was far from good enough. Wesley Fofana - 2 Absolutely terrible. Gave away a silly yellow card for petulance, and just awful playing out from the back. Trevoh Chalobah - 3 First half he was atrocious and wasn’t making any good passes. Second half he improved slightly. Jorrel Hato - 4 As has been the case lately, one of our better quality players on show tonight but still poor defensively. Marc Cucurella - 1 He’s just not in games at all right now, his head is clearly elsewhere for a summer move. Moises Caicedo - 2 Like Gusto, Brighton players got in his head and it effected him. Yet another poor performance from our usual reliable midfielder. Romeo Lavia - 1 Was he even on the pitch? The only times I saw him was when he was looking nervous as hell taking the ball short from Sanchez in our own area. Enzo Fernandez - 1 Another player I had no idea was playing most of the game. Also didn’t like being tackled. Pedro Neto - 1 Ran a lot. Didn’t take on his man at all. Did absolutely nothing. Liam Delap - 3 I thought he started the game OK, at least holding the ball up and being the only player in this team prepared to match their physicality. But he then ghosted the second half. SUBS Alejandro Garnacho for Fofana (45 mins) - 5 Was a tiny bit more of a threat than anyone was in the first half and had some shots, but still lost the ball too easily and was offside too much. Bang average player. Dario Essugo for Lavia (71 mins) - N/A Marc Guiu for Delap (71 mins) - N/A Conclusion Five straight league defeats, no goals scored in those games. One win in our last 8 in all competitions. Not a single shot on target tonight compared to Brighton’s 7. They controlled the game and we were lucky it wasn’t 7-0 tonight. It was THAT bad. I’m not sure if he will be sacked tonight/tomorrow at this point, but based on all the things I’ve heard leading up to this game from various sources, I’d not be surprised if he does go now. Let’s see. I’ll deliver any news I get, unless I’m asleep of course as I’m very tired now after watching that shite.