“They came to disrupt…” – Chelsea defender tries to explain home defeat

Chelsea are back into the mire, breaking a promising winning run with a stupefying late defeat to Sunderland.

Speaking after the game, Trevoh Chalobah fronted up to the Sky Sports cameras to discuss the defeat.

Chalobah on “difficult defeat to take”

“It’s a difficult one to take, they came to disrupt our game,” the defender said.

“We had a couple of chances in the first half, we created some in the second but switched of at the end. As a team it is not the best of games but it is one we have to learn from. With the Champions League we have a lot of games but we can’t complain. These are the games we want to play in and we can’t use that as an excuse.

“Everyone felt that one [in the dressing room]. It is a game we needed to win. We have been very good at Stamford Bridge so it is disappointing.”

He’s right – fatigue is no excuse. Most of the team was changed for the midweek game in the Champions League, and there were plenty of early subs that night. Not only that, the bulk of these players had a two week international break with no game to get fresh again earlier this month.

As for the team creating chances – there were not nearly enough of them. This isn’t a day where you can blame the strikers for missing easy opportunities. They barely got any, not that they did much to help themselves.

In other news…

The decision to take off Josh Acheampong massively backfired, as we detailed here. He had a good partnership with Chalobah disrupted, and we paid the price.

If you haven’t seen the embarrassing goal which cost us, you can watch it here and make your own mind up about who was most at fault.