The Blues slumped to a 3-0 loss at Everton on Saturday night, extending their winless run to six Premier League matches and leaving manager Liam Rosenior under mounting pressure. Chelsea have now conceded 12 goals across four consecutive defeats following their Champions League elimination.
Chelsea suffered a 3-0 defeat at Everton on Saturday evening, with a double from Beto putting David Moyes’ side into the ascendancy before Iliman Ndiaye found the top corner late on to wrap up the three points yahoo.
The result marked Chelsea’s fourth consecutive loss across all competitions. The defeat extended the Blues’ winless run in the Premier League to six matches, with the club managing just one victory in their last six league games ABC6 On Your Side.
After a cagey opening, the home side broke the deadlock shortly after the half-hour mark as Beto raced clear of the Chelsea defense and dinked a finish over Blues goalkeeper Robert Sanchez Bloomberg. The Guinea-Bissau international doubled Everton’s advantage in the second half with a powerful shot that went through Sanchez and crept over the line.
Iliman Ndiaye then added further gloss to the scoreline with a fine finish into the top corner Bloomberg, sealing a comprehensive victory for the Toffees at their Hill Dickinson Stadium.
The match marked Chelsea’s first visit to Everton’s new home Bloomberg, and it proved a miserable introduction for the traveling supporters. Jordan Pickford produced two excellent saves to deny Enzo Fernandez, but Chelsea created little else of note as their attacking struggles continued.
“The most disappointing evening so far in terms of the things we’ve spoken about, not gifting goals away, making sure we’re in the game, getting control of the game,” Rosenior said after the match. “It wasn’t there and it turned into a really, really difficult evening where the result and performance was nowhere near what we expected or wanted.” Bloomberg
Sanchez was culpable for Beto’s second goal, having earlier gotten away with a sloppy mistake when the game was still goalless Bloomberg. The goalkeeper’s poor form continues a troubling trend for a Chelsea side that has now gone 15 matches without a clean sheet.
The defeat came just four days after Chelsea exited the Champions League in an 8-2 aggregate loss to Paris Saint-Germain Bloomberg. That humiliation — Chelsea’s worst-ever defeat in knockout European football CiberCuba — has plunged Rosenior’s brief tenure at Stamford Bridge into crisis.
Chelsea have now lost four successive games by an aggregate score of 12-2 CNN. The run includes defeats to PSG twice, Newcastle United, and now Everton. At one point during this spell, Chelsea had conceded seven goals from corners in 13 games, representing a significant defensive deterioration Fortune.
With the win, Everton moved up to seventh in the Premier League table and into the Champions League picture, sitting five points behind Aston Villa in fourth yahoo. Chelsea, meanwhile, remain sixth but saw their advantage over Everton cut to just two points, intensifying the pressure on their top-five finish.
The result raises serious questions about Rosenior’s future at Stamford Bridge. The 41-year-old was appointed in January following the departure of Enzo Maresca, who lost his job after falling out with the club’s hierarchy. Rosenior was managing BlueCo-owned club Strasbourg at the time of his promotion Al Jazeera.
Rosenior’s start at Chelsea began promisingly. He won his first four matches in charge CNN, but the wheels have come off spectacularly in recent weeks. It took Maresca 30 games to lose six matches, but Rosenior managed it in just 18 Fortune.
The collapse has been particularly alarming given the context. Unlike Maresca, who delivered the Conference League and Club World Cup, Rosenior has just overseen four consecutive defeats, including a humiliating 8-2 aggregate exit to PSG Fortune.
Despite the poor run, sources close to the club suggest Rosenior retains the board’s confidence — for now. Transfer expert Fabrizio Romano said this week that Chelsea have no immediate plans to make a change. “At the moment, I don’t have any message coming from the Chelsea side about any imminent change or any strong decision,” Romano said. “Rosenior is maintaining the full confidence and, at the moment, that’s the situation with the club.” CNN
However, it is considered important for the club and their finances that they secure Champions League football Al Jazeera. Chelsea currently sit three points behind fourth-placed Aston Villa, and even fifth place could secure Champions League qualification depending on other results this season.
The pressure from supporters is mounting. There were loud boos at half-time and full-time against PSG, from those that remained. The majority of the stands had emptied by that point, with fans beginning to flood out after the third goal CNBC.
Following Saturday’s defeat, Rosenior addressed the unrest within the fanbase: “The supporters pay their money, they love this club, and they’ve come a long way. It’s a disappointing time for the club at the moment in terms of the way we lost in the Champions League and the way we’ve lost the last two games.” Bloomberg
He added that the upcoming international break could prove beneficial. “My job — it hurts, regardless of your position, it hurts to lose games of football — in terms of moving forward and having this time is to look at the bigger picture. We’re one point away from the Champions League position. We need to keep working in this way.”</iterate>
Rosenior conceded that he is “still learning about this club” Bloomberg, a comment that has done little to inspire confidence among a fanbase growing tired of constant upheaval. Rosenior is Chelsea’s fourth project in as many years CNBC, and patience is wearing thin.
Off-field issues compound the on-pitch struggles. Chelsea’s line-ups have been leaked to the media on several occasions, including ahead of PSG’s visit, before which Rosenior vowed the leaks would stop CNBC. The club also received a suspended one-year transfer ban this week from the Premier League for secret payments made under Roman Abramovich CNBC.
Vice-captain Enzo Fernandez suggested after the PSG match that he could look to leave Chelsea in the summer CiberCuba, raising the specter of further instability. The Argentine still has six years remaining on his contract, making any departure complicated, but his public discontent reflects a broader malaise at the club.
The Express has identified four potential candidates should Chelsea decide to sack Rosenior: PSG manager Luis Enrique, Como’s Cesc Fabregas, former Flamengo boss Filipe Luis, and Crystal Palace’s Oliver Glasner Al Jazeera.
Chelsea are not in action again until April 4, when they welcome Port Vale to Stamford Bridge in the FA Cup quarter-finals. The international break offers Rosenior a brief reprieve, but with Chelsea’s top-five status now under genuine threat, the pressure will only intensify when the Premier League resumes.
For a club that was crowned world champions less than a year ago CiberCuba, the speed of the decline has been startling. Whether Rosenior can arrest it remains the defining question of Chelsea’s season.