Chelsea were beaten by Man U in a game the Blues desperately needed to win. Their Champions League chase is now over \u2013 if it wasn\u2019t already.<\/p>\n
This game didn\u2019t have the defensive collapses we\u2019ve seen often recently, but instead saw the Blues conceded and be totally unable to create any threat in attack, despite dominating the ball.<\/p>\n
Things got significantly worse after just 15 minutes, when Estevao, our only threatening attacker in the squad on current form, was taken off injured. His replacement, Alejandro Garnacho, had one of the worst games we\u2019ve seen a Chelsea attacker have in years, failing to threaten time and time again against his old team.<\/p>\n
Despite facing a makeshift back line featuring Ayden Heaven and Nouazir Mazraoui at centre back, the Blues (and Liam Delap leading the line in particular) were embarrassingly unable to create significant chances.<\/p>\n
MOTM \u2013 Enzo Fernandez<\/strong><\/p>\n Liam Rosenior is looking totally lost, and this game only enhanced that feeling. The terrible construction of this squad has left him with with very little to work with, but even then we see far lesser sides create more danger than this on a regular basis in this league.<\/p>\n The players have totally given up on him, as you can see both from his futile attempts to pass instructions to the pitch, and from the open acts of dissent from the likes of Wesley Fofana, who shrugged off his coaches when he was subbed off towards the end.<\/p>\n Chelsea<\/strong>: Sanchez; Gusto (Acheampong 81), Fofana (Chalobah 81), Hato, Cucurella; Caicedo (c), Fernandez (Lavia 88); Estevao (Garnacho 16), Palmer, Neto; Delap<\/span> Statistic<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/th>\n Team A<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/th>\n Team B<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n Ball Possession<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 59%<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 41%<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Expected Goals (xG)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 1.57<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 0.29<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Total Shots<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 21<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 4<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Shots on Target<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 3<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Big Chances<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Big Chances Missed<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Accurate Passes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 541 (89%)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 362 (84%)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Fouls Committed<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 12<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 13<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Corners<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 7<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 1<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n Summary<\/span><\/span>: Team A dominated the match with much higher possession, expected goals, and total shots, while Team B struggled offensively.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve had one shot on our goal when we\u2019re down to ten men because of an injury and they score. We have wave after wave of attack, put crosses in the box, and have moments that we don\u2019t take advantage \u2013 we\u2019ve hit the woodwork several times.\u201d \u2013 Liam Rosenior tries to spin positive about another pathetic showing.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea were beaten by Man U in a game the Blues desperately needed to win….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Analysis<\/h2>\n
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Chelsea substitutes<\/strong>: Sharman-Lowe, Tosin, Andrey Santos, Essugo, Guiu<\/span><\/p>\nStats<\/h2>\n
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