‘most Difficult Night’: Liam Rosenior Hits Out At Chelsea’s Attitude After Brighton Blow

Liam Rosenior bemoaned nan “most difficult night” successful offering nary defence of his Chelsea players aft they slumped to a 3-0 conclusion by Brighton.

“By far,” Rosenior replied erstwhile asked if this was nan toughest time of his short Chelsea tenure. Questions of whether he survives successful his position arsenic caput coach until Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final pinch Leeds will beryllium floated aft his team’s abject performance.

Rosenior said aft Chelsea’s 5th consecutive convention conclusion without scoring: “That was unacceptable successful each facet of nan game. Unacceptable successful nan attitude. I support coming retired and defending nan players, but that’s unacceptable tonight.

“Something needs to alteration drastically correct here, correct now. We request to look successful nan mirror. I can’t support coming retired present defending immoderate of nan things we’re seeing. General attitude, spirit, was lacking, determination, possibly 3 aliases 4 retired of nan 11, that’s obscurity adjacent capable for this club. I can’t travel retired and lie, that was an unacceptable capacity for this club.”

Goals from Ferdi Kadioglu, Jack Hinshelwood and Danny Welbeck did nan harm for a rampant Brighton against a Chelsea squad without Cole Palmer, initially playing successful an unfamiliar 3-5-2 formation.

Rosenior’s postmortem was stark: “Nowhere adjacent nan levels, not moreover tactical, tackles, duels, intensity, spirit, energy, passion each lacking and that is nan logic we lost. I consciousness numb. I’m truthful angry. I ever speak connected what I spot and that was unacceptable. The goals we conceded were unacceptable and that is thing I person to clasp my hands up to.”

The erstwhile Brighton subordinate and coach said: “The performance, successful position of professionalism, wasn’t there. It’s a really, really difficult night. The astir difficult nighttime present astatine this magnificent nine successful my career. Some of nan things I was witnessing today, I ne'er want to spot again.”

Brighton leapfrogged nan visitors successful sixth place, closing connected a return to European shot adjacent season. Their caput coach, Fabian Hürzeler, said of their emergence up nan table: “It is not that important for us. We must support focusing connected capacity and support focusing connected what we tin do right. We person precocious expectations of ourselves.”