Chelsea’s Champions League hopes are all but dead and buried. PSG won 5-2 tonight in a tie that will be difficult to see Chelsea come back from.
Goals from Malo Gusto and Enzo Fernandez weren’t enough, as although Chelsea were great in the attack, in defence it was an entirely different story.
Liam Rosenior faced major questions before the game for dropping one of Chelsea’s Player of the Season candidates in Robert Sanchez for his understudy.
Filip Jorgensen hasn’t exactly filled Chelsea fans with confidence since arriving at the club.
It seems Rosenior has decided to give up on Sanchez for one mistake against Arsenal, in favour of Jorgensen.
Those questions will be deafening for Rosenior now, as his new number one most likely decided this tie for Chelsea already.
The Swedish goalkeeper can’t be blamed for the first two PSG goals. But throughout the game you could sense that he was going to play the ball into danger, and that’s exactly what we witnessed with the third goal.
Jorgensen gave the ball away needlessly to Bradley Barcola, which allowed Vitinha to beautifully chip a shot into the back of the net.
You could see a mistake like that from the starting goalkeeper coming from a mile off.
Dangerous passes, and arrogant little tricks like he was playing any other team in Europe and it caught up to him.
The fifth goal can also be credited towards Jorgensen as well.
A shot which Sanchez would’ve saved with ease, went under the 23-year old’s arms like butter.
Rosenior can take all the blame for this loss, along with Jorgensen of course.
The fact that you’ve dropped one of Chelsea’s best and most improved players this season, for his backup in one of the biggest games of the season is a fine example of how bold the Englishman can be as a manager.
Unfortunately that bold approach doesn’t come off, and for Rosenior it rarely has.
He’s gotten things wrong from the start quite regularly in his Chelsea tenure, but today he couldn’t make changes because if he substituted Jorgensen for Sanchez that would’ve caused even more noise for the young manager.
If he wants to be successful at Chelsea, he has to be smart and not bold for the sake of being bold.
Implementing your style of play by passing out the back over halfway through a season, or at least trying to, is a recipe for disaster and it’s worrying he hasn’t figured that out so far.
Chelsea have Newcastle up next, with UCL football and a FA Cup run all to play for this season now it seems like.
Will Rosenior come to his senses finally and bring back Sanchez into the starting lineup?
