Borussia Dortmund 1-0 Chelsea: 3 lessons learned

Three Lessons learned from Chelsea loss

Chelsea’s January signings still need time to gel

The blues have spent well over £300m in the January window, raising the season spending to over £600m to seriously improve the squad, there will be problems with chemistry. With the likes of Joao Felix, Mykhailo Mudryk, Noni Madueke, Beniot Badiashile, and Enzo Fernandez, being guaranteed a starting position, it will take time for these players to adapt. However, only Felix, Mudryk, and Fernandez were registered for the UCL. Despite there being only ‘three’ new players in the Champions League squad, we’ll still see this problem in the league.

Many of the CFC faithful would blame this problem on the manager, but the main problem isn’t the creativity, but rather the finishing. The intention is there but the Blues forward lines aren’t taking advantage when the opportunity arises. Getting rid of Potter at this stage is comical, especially with a major problem being to gel these new players, a new manager will only run into the same problem.

Toothless in front of goal

The only Premier League team to not score on the counter in the previous two campaigns is Chelsea. The blues has only scored two goals in the league through counter-attacks since 2020/21 through February 2023. In 2019/20 alone, the west London club scored seven of their own. Truly, a very worrying stat.