Gary Neville has selected four Chelsea players for criticism of their decisions during the 3-1 defeat of Blues by Manchester City.
The difficult shape of the side took place on Saturday when they took the defensive Premier League champions, causing their Champions League qualifying qualification to doubt when they slid out of the top five.
After he had an impressive start of the season in which a brand saw them title candidates, the men of Enzo Maresca only won once in their last seven games and were also the second best at Etihad.
After he had taken the lead early through Noni Madueke, Josko Gvardiol, Erling Haaland and Phil Foden all scored to give City, who are starting to hit again, the victory.
When Madueke scored, it seemed that the visitors could have put the game out of sight with New City who signed Abdukodir Khusanov who struggled in the middle of the back. However, that did not happen and they started to lose the game.
Neville, who spoke at the Gary Neville Podcast, criticized Chelsea early for their efforts and suggested that four players in particular should have led the uprising in the opening phase.
“The reason I am going to be Helsea is hard is that I think there is a lot of talent at that pitch and they have had a very good season,” he started. 'They run for Talent teams, such as Newcastle, Nottingham Forest, Bournemouth.
'I never thought they could win the competition this year, so I don't expect them to win every game, but I was frustrated on two fronts. One – and I felt like that when I said a bond of billion pounds, I felt they were showing something – in the first 10 minutes of this game they showed something.
'They could have gone 2-0, but I mentioned players who were programmed as robots. If you admit, scores, if you can see that another team is vulnerable or feels a nervousness in the ground, you must be able to adjust.
“There is some experience that is there. (Moises) Caicedo, (Enzo) Fernandez I look in particular and even Cole Palmer now, which he has done in the last 18 months. Reece James. I look at those four in particular thinking: “You must have felt that at that moment in the game the boy in the middle of the middle, (methus) nunes on the right, the midfield that can't really run, you had, you had To go for the neck “.
“I said it at the time and they missed a real chance because they were programmed before the game to play a certain way. They could not switch to fully press. The game had changed. I feel that I would have smoked that in United if I was there.
'You had to attack the left side. They left them off the hook. That is due to a mentality. '
The opening goal of the match came through an error from Khusanov, who had tried to go back to Edererson before Nicolas Jackson Madueke saved.
He was then booked only a few minutes later for an error on Palmer, with the city struggling that had capitulated against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League just a few days earlier.
However, they recovered to continue their return to the Premier League and to go to fourth place in the table.
In the meantime, Robert Sanchez's newest mistake came from the goal of Haaland, where the blues goalkeeper rushed out of his goal before he was lobinated by the attacker from a distance.
It was his fifth mistake that led to a goal this season, most of each Premier League player, and Bluesbaas Enzo Maresca hinted after the game that he could soon change keeper.
“We certainly trust Robert, but at the same time he is aware that he makes mistakes,” said Maresca.
“We continue to trust Robert, but we have a whole week, see the reaction and decide for the following games.”
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