Chelsea FC Fall To Bournemouth: 4 Key Takeaways
A Sense Of Embarrassment
As if lauding Chelsea’s victories and clean sheets against Norwich and Maccabi Tel-Aviv wasn’t bad enough, Jose Mourinho went as far as to claim that last week’s backs-to-the-wall goalless draw against Tottenham was “Chelsea’s best team performance of the season”.
All the lads managed to do in essence was to pay our London neighbours the same complement naturally reserved for teams like Barcelona and Bayern Munich. There were even comments made about the team finally “turning the corner” after managing 3 consecutive clean sheets for the first time since April; I guess the loss to Bournemouth means the team managed to turn the corner only to crash into an oncoming passenger bus!
To make matters worse, the Blues contrived to lose against a side faced with both the worst injury crisis suffered by a club not called Arsenal FC and the current worst defensive record in the league. They lost their top scorer (Callum Wilson) and top creator (Max Gradel) to long term injuries as well as eight other players of varying levels of importance, yet managed to pull off what Eddie Howe considered “the biggest win of the club’s history”.
The Cherries also kept a clean sheet, just their second in the Premier League (their first came against Sunderland, who are currently in 18th spot). Not only that, but Glenn Murray’s late goal means that they have now scored one more goal than the Blues so far in the league!
It seems as though turning a corner isn’t all what it is cut out to be!
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