A very bad night for all concerned, certainly one to learn from rather than to forget.
Missed a massive chance at a trophy.
Chelsea have been inconsistent of late and are very beatable. To get hammered by them can only be described as an embarrassment.
Ole's and the coaches job is to pick the best team available to beat the opposition. I'm a massive fan of Ole and what he is doing but tonight his formation/tactics didnt work. Thats the way it goes, sometimes it works and its genius, other times it bombs and costs us.
We have played that formation before and it can work, you have to trust that based on player fatigue/etc Ole picked the formation/players he thought would help us.
That being said, what you absolutely cannot account for is individual mistakes.
Now i'm not just going to bash DDG, but he should save all 3 easily. We gifted them 3 goals. But what basically all our players done all game was well below par. No one could string a pass, no one looked bothered, no one was running the channels, no one was putting any effort in whatsoever.
DDG didnt cost us that game, we were collectively not at the races. We didnt show up. Chelsea wanted it more, ran harder, pressed us better and totally outplayed us.
The lack of intensity in our play just wasnt there. Even when we brought Martial/Pogba on they didnt impact the game.
A bad day at the office for everyone.
We need to dust ourselves off and bounce back to a bit of form. Big game against West Ham.
Top 4 is in our hands and we still got Europa. Time to show some character