Chelsea were beaten 3-0 by Everton in a must win game, and their Champions League hopes are now effectively over.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n It didn\u2019t start well. The first 15 minutes were a continuation of the same awful stuff we\u2019ve seen week after week, year after year. Defenders making poor passes out from the back, Robert Sanchez dawdling on the ball. We could have been out of it before we\u2019d had so much as a shot on target.<\/p>\n The Blues managed to get a foothold in the game with some sterile possession higher up the pitch, but all it did was open them up more. It didn\u2019t take long for a total lack of pressure in midfield to allow James Garner to pick out a through ball to Beto, who finished neatly over Robert Sanchez.<\/p>\n Things got worse in the second half. Beto added a second when his shot went through Sanchez after yet more terrible defending, and Iliman Ndiaye lashed in a superb goal after the Blues failed to defend a long ball.<\/p>\n MOTM \u2013 Cole Palmer<\/strong><\/p>\n There\u2019s almost nothing left to be said after that. What can we add to our reports on the losses against Newcastle and PSG (x2)?<\/p>\n The team are far too open, yet don\u2019t even manage to leverage that to make good chances. They are exposed horribly the moment the opposition have the ball, but don\u2019t threaten at all when they have it.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the worst of both worlds \u2013 at least Mauricio Pochettino had some attacking promise, and Enzo Maresca some defensive control.<\/p>\n The players are making horrible defensive errors, but there are ways of mitigating that. Asking them to play out from the back is quite the opposite.<\/p>\n Everton<\/span><\/span><\/strong> Substitutes<\/span><\/span><\/em> Chelsea<\/span><\/span><\/strong> Substitutes<\/span><\/span><\/em> 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 45%<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 55%<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Expected Goals (xG)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 1.26<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 1.09<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Total Shots<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 18<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 8<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Shots on Target<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 5<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Big Chances<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 2<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 3<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Big Chances Missed<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 2<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 2<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Accurate Passes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 385 (85%)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 482 (87%)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Fouls Committed<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 8<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 10<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Corners<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 3<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n This table clearly organizes the provided match data. Team A had more shots and better xG, while Team B had higher possession.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThe most disappointing evening so far in terms of the things we\u2019ve spoken about, not gifting goals away and making sure we\u2019re in the game, getting control of the game,\u201d \u2013 Liam Rosenior is honest about Chelsea disaster.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea were beaten 3-0 by Everton in a must win game, and their Champions League…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","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\/1151","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=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Analysis<\/h2>\n
Teams<\/h2>\n
Jordan Pickford<\/span>
Jake O\u2019Brien<\/span>
James Tarkowski<\/span>
Michael Keane<\/span>
Vitaliy Mykolenko<\/span>
James Garner<\/span>
Idrissa Gueye<\/span>
Dwight McNeil<\/span>
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall<\/span>
Indian education<\/span>
Norberto Beto <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Mark Travers<\/span>
Nathan Patterson<\/span>
Thierno Barry (s 81\u2032)<\/span>
Tyler Dibling<\/span>
Seamus Coleman<\/span>
Jarrad Branthwaite (s 78\u2032)<\/span>
Merlin Rohl (s 89\u2032)<\/span>
Timothy Iroegbunam (s 89\u2032)<\/span>
Harrison Armstrong <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Robert Sanchez<\/span>
Malo want<\/span>
Wesley Fofana<\/span>
Jorrel Hato<\/span>
Marc Cucurella<\/span>
Romeo Lavia<\/span>
Moises Caicedo<\/span>
Cole Palmer<\/span>
Enzo Fernandez<\/span>
Lomba Pedro Neto<\/span>
by Jesus Jo\u00e3o Pedro <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Teddy Sharman-Lowe<\/span>
Tosin Adarabioyo (s 78\u2032)<\/span>
Liam Delap (s 78\u2032)<\/span>
Dario Essugo<\/span>
Andrey Santos (s 57\u2032)<\/span>
Mamadou Sarr<\/span>
Josh Acheampong<\/span>
de Oliveira Estevao (s 70\u2032)<\/span>
Alejandro Garnacho (s 46\u2032) <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nStats<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
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