{"id":5097,"date":"2026-05-06T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:30:10","slug":"why-fans-prefer-joao-pedros-post-match-comments-to-chalobahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=5097","title":{"rendered":"Why fans prefer Joao Pedro&#8217;s post-match comments to Chalobah&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Joao Pedro took a very different stance to Chelsea\u2019s performance to the one that Trevoh Chalobah did a couple of weeks ago. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoy Chelsea News coverage and want to see more of it, add us as a preferred source on Google to make us a favourite and see more of our content.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The London is Blue podcast had the unfortunate task of looking back at Monday\u2019s defeat to Nottingham Forest, and they noted that Joao Pedro had made some interesting comments after the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had a comment after the game too, saying, \u2018I don\u2019t think it\u2019s about the coach, it\u2019s on players to step up, it\u2019s difficult to say something,&#8217;\u201d presenter Dan Dormer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do like that, but I don\u2019t love that players are having to call out other players. But it\u2019s better than what Trevoh Chalobah said a couple of weeks ago when he talked about players giving it their all when players were not necessarily giving it their all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can see them discussing the answer in the clip embedded here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-lazy tweet-img lazyload\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f Dan on Joao Pedro&#8217;s comments after the Forest game asking his teammates to step up during the club&#8217;s worst run of form in the PL ever.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa7\ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/t.co\/5CQ532EL9Y <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K3RXyt3ldM\">pic.twitter.com\/K3RXyt3ldM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 London Is Blue Podcast \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f (@LondonBluePod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LondonBluePod\/status\/2052006316961567170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Chelsea players forced to take responsibility by horrible reality<\/h2>\n<p>We suppose it becomes pretty difficult to blame the manager when you\u2019ve had three in a season and been bad under all of them. The players were always going to have to take some responsibility eventually.<\/p>\n<h2>In other news\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>Chelsea are insisting they don\u2019t need to sell Cole Palmer \u2013 but the question is becoming, might they <em>want<\/em> to sell him?<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Derry had a promising debut for the Blues on Monday, before it was cut short. His path for next season will be very interesting, with a loan already suggested.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL CHELSEA NEWS APP FOR ALL THE LATEST UPDATES \u2013 STRAIGHT TO YOUR PHONE! ON THE APP STORE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Check out the latest edition of Simon Phillips\u2019 SPTC podcast here:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SPTC Podcast: Chelsea Reporter Lloyd Canfield joins the show!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7UP6ox8d4pk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<section class=\"more-stories std-mgn-b\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<header class=\"col-s-12 std-mgn-t\">More Stories about <span class=\"topic\">Trevoh Chalobah<\/span><\/header>\n<div class=\"post-container col-s-4\">\n<p>\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-cntr\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" 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