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Chilwell admits Chelsea players are ‘hurt and angry’.
Ben Chilwell spoke candidly about Chelsea’s 3-1 loss against Arsenal on Tuesday, stating the players were “hurt and angry.”
Despite Noni Madueke’s 65th-minute consolation, it was a familiar story for Chilwell and Chelsea, as a goal from Gabriel Jesus and a brace from Martin Odegaard within 34 first-half minutes sealed all three points for the Gunners.
The setback left interim Blues manager Frank Lampard with a dismal record of six losses in his first six games in charge, a record that Chilwell confessed is making the players feel “every negative emotion.”
“We’re hurt and angry, every negative emotion you could think of,” the full-back told the club’s official website. “It was very poor.
We knew that if we came here and played like that we would have to expect to concede three goals. We weren’t getting tight to anyone, weren’t laying a hand on anyone. We were passive.
We’re probably quite a nice team to play against which has been the story of the whole season to be honest. It seems to be every team that plays against us has a good game. That’s not a coincidence. A lot of the performances recently have been below the standard we set. The first half was another example of that. We have to look at ourselves.”
After Odegaard and Arsenal’s second goal, Chilwell got into a furious disagreement with Enzo Fernandez and Thiago Silva because the Norwegian was once again given plenty of room to turn home.
But with Chelsea recording six straight defeats for the first time in 30 years, the england international stressed the need for togetherness, adding: “We are in a deep hole at the moment. To get ourselves out of it we need to stick together.
There will be a lot of outside noise, but we need to stick together, train hard and coming into games show the effort the fans want to see. That’s all we can focus on now: doing it for ourselves and importantly for the fans, giving them something positive in the last five games. They have stuck with us all season.”
With Chelsea now in 12th place and still lacking the necessary 40 points, a loss against high-flying Bournemouth on Saturday may cause Lampard’s team to plummet as far as 14th.