Interim boss Calum McFarlane admitted Chelsea\u2019s start was \u201cnot acceptable\u201d after their poor run of form continued with a 3-1 home defeat against Nottingham Forest.<\/strong><\/p>\n The loss was Chelsea\u2019s sixth consecutive league defeat and their fourth in a row at Stamford Bridge, officially ending any remaining hopes of Champions League qualification.<\/p>\n Forest, who made eight changes for the match, scored twice in the opening quarter of an hour.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought the first 15 minutes we were nowhere near the level we needed to be,\u201d McFarlane said<\/p>\n \u201cThe early goal was a bit of a sucker punch and we didn\u2019t seem to really recover from that moment. Ultimately, the first 15 minutes was not acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n Chelsea had opportunities to get back into the game, with Enzo Fernandez hitting the post and Cole Palmer missing a penalty, but the damage was done during a sluggish opening period.<\/p>\n McFarlane added: \u201cThe manner in which the two goals were conceded really set us back and gave ourselves a mountain to climb.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t do that at this level, especially against a team that is fighting for their life.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll review the game, try and find the reason why, and try to make sure that the performance level is of a higher level against Liverpool.\u201d<\/p>\n Get the latest direct to your phone \u2013 follow West London Sport\u2019s WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Interim boss Calum McFarlane admitted Chelsea\u2019s start was \u201cnot acceptable\u201d after their poor run of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4560","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\/4560","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=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"WhatsApp\"\/](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6b\/WhatsApp.svg\")
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