Glenn Hoddle believes Wesley Fofana was not able Chelsea‘standard’ in their 3-0 loss to Everton on Saturday.
Two goals from Beto and a superb strike from Iliman Ndiaye sealed a deserved win for Everton.leaving Chelsea with four consecutive defeats in all competitions.
Fofana was caught for both of Beto’s goals at the Hill Dickinson Stadium and Hoddle says Chelsea’s £70m signing ‘needs to really look at himself’.
“It’s no coincidence, we analyzed it in the first half, Fofana in the first few minutes gave the ball away and then he crosses the ball and Everton really should have scored then,” said Hoddle. Premier League Productions.
So he has set his tone in his game, defensively, very badly. This is not a standard you can have if you are a Chelsea player.
“He has to really look at himself and his overall performance because that’s something that makes you hesitate.
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“If you’re not in sync, if you don’t defend correctly from the first minute, it sets a pattern for the rest of the game and that’s how he played.”
Hoddle also believes Liam Rosenior’s decision not to play the same centre-back pairing on a consistent basis has disrupted Chelsea.
‘Liam Rosenio he’s changed two or three back and it’s not because of injury,” said Hoddle.
“I always think that if you have two strong center backs or three backs, if they play consistently together, you become a unit, you become a unit within the team unit and you become so tight, you trust each other, you play against each other and you get the instincts of when someone is going to defend, when someone is going to cover.
“That’s not happening with Chelsea, they’re changing so many times, you don’t have that continuity at all and you don’t have that feeling.
“They feel fragile, they look fragile. They certainly started today very fragile defensively.
“I think it’s time Chelsea don’t look outside, look inside and say these performances are not good enough.
“I saw them, I covered the game Paris Saint-Germain, they were brilliant for 60 minutes and going toe-to-toe with the best teams in Europe, and then suddenly it collapsed, a bit like how they started today.
“They have these moments and they don’t have that consistency, they haven’t got that experience, they’ve lost it. Reece James there today, pulling people and saying, ‘this is not good enough’. It’s things like that, they need a player, they don’t have that experience for someone to dig them up while they’re on the pitch when needed.
‘That’s why you’re seeing this discrepancy. They need to look within themselves to improve performance and then get the results.’
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