Match Report: Toothless Chelsea beaten 1-0 at home by Man U as spiral continues

Match Report: Toothless Chelsea beaten 1-0 at home by Man U as spiral continues

Chelsea were beaten by Man U in a game the Blues desperately needed to win. Their Champions League chase is now over – if it wasn’t already.

This game didn’t have the defensive collapses we’ve seen often recently, but instead saw the Blues conceded and be totally unable to create any threat in attack, despite dominating the ball.

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’ve seen a Chelsea attacker have in years, failing to threaten time and time again against his old team.

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.

MOTM – Enzo Fernandez

Analysis

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.