John Terry has branded Chelsea’s Champions League thrashing by the hands of Paris Saint-Germain as unacceptable.
The reigning European champions gained a measure of revenge for last summer’s World Club Cup final defeat by handing out an 8-2 thrashing on aggregate following Tuesday night’s 3-0 romp at Stamford Bridge.
Liam Rosenior had talked bullishly ahead of the second leg and had been confident that his young side were able to overturning a three-goal deficit following their late capitulation within the French capital.
As an alternative, Chelsea rolled out the welcome mat for his or her visitors who gleefully accepted the early opportunities that allowed them to place the tie to bed inside the first 16 minutes in west London.
The Blues were fortunate, in some ways, that Luis Enrique’s side eased off the gas thereafter and scored just once thereafter with Senny Myulu putting the gloss on a comprehensive demolition just after the hour mark.
And while a dejected Terry conceded that much of the damage had already been done at Parc des Princes, he argued that no Chelsea side should ever lose a European knockout game by such a large margin.
He said: ‘Unfortunately that’s the tip. You understand what does it for me? Being 3-2 down away to PSG and we actually played rather well the entire game, or for 70 minutes of it.
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‘I’m going 3-2 we’ll take that every one day long going back to the Bridge, I fancy us against anyone to give you the chance to show that around after which we go and concede late goals to make it really difficult.
‘After which last night we go and concede after six minutes so all the things about last night, I can’t even speak about it. I can’t even actually go into the detail of it. I’m so frustrated.
‘But against any team you can not lose 8-2 over two legs. I’m sorry you’ll be able to’t. I don’t care who you might be, what team you might be you can not lose 8-2 so really frustrating.’
Midfielder Moises Caicedo, meanwhile, accepted Chelsea’s best had not been adequate after their European campaign went out with a whimper.
‘It was disappointing for everybody,’ said Caicedo, who had given the ball away cheaply in midfield within the build-up to the second goal.
‘After all we all know PSG are a really tough opponent. We tried to indicate our greatest, but they’re the present champions of the competition. We did our greatest but we didn’t get what we wanted.’
Chelsea’s embarrassment was complete when 19-year-old midfielder Mayulu got here off the bench to blast home PSG’s third, triggering a chorus of boos as supporters began to stream out of the bottom.
Individual mistakes had been their undoing in the primary leg in Paris and proved the case again here, though the way wherein the European champions punished them was particularly brutal.
‘We desired to do higher but they’re the most effective teams on the planet,’ Caicedo said. ‘We’re disenchanted and need to do higher.
‘Everyone was able to fight, but I feel we now have 4 competitions playing every two or three days. Sometimes on this scenario, it’s so difficult because they’re doing well. We’ll keep going.’
Liam Rosenior’s team are in a fight to return to the competition next season. They’re sixth within the Premier League after winning only considered one of their last 4 games and face a difficult project at Everton on Saturday.
After a positive start, the previous Strasbourg boss is liable to seeing his tenure turn sour. Supporters sang the name of former owner Roman Abramovich – typically an indication that discontent is bubbling at Stamford Bridge – while there was a furious response to Rosenior’s decision to take off Cole Palmer and Joao Pedro with half-hour to go.
Chelsea’s night got worse afterwards when Enzo Fernandez said in a post-match interview with ESPN in Argentina that he doesn’t know whether he can be on the club next season.
‘There are eight games, then the World Cup, then we’ll see,’ he said.
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