apoel 2-2

Independent:

Apoel add to Ancelotti jitters
Chelsea 2 Apoel Nicosia 2

By Mark Fleming

Carlo Ancelotti is rapidly finding out that managing Chelsea is not quite so easy after all. The Italian had a face like fury after his team conceded a late equaliser to Cypriot side Apoel Nicosia. He didn't mince his words either after seeing his Chelsea team follow defeats to Blackburn and Manchester City with a tame draw against possibly the worst team in this season's Champions League.
"Too soft," he said. "It's a psychological thing," he added. This describing the team that only nine days earlier had been hailed as virtual champions after they bullied poor Arsenal and came away from the Emirates with an emphatic 3-0 victory.
Ancelotti's fury was understandable. Chelsea dominated the game, scored twice, had two goals struck off by the referee Matteo Trefoloni and hit the bar, yet they still allowed the substitute Nenad Mirosavljevic to sneak a late equaliser to send the 3,000 Cypriot fans inside Stamford Bridge into wild celebration.
The Italian said: "This was the poorest we have played this season. It was not a good evening. In the second half we lost intensity, we lost concentration, we played too slowly and too soft. For this, I'm not happy. I'm unhappy because we have to play 90 minutes with intensity and concentration. It's not important about the result. It's important to play our best every game. Tonight was not like you want. It's right that Apoel drew the game."
Ancelotti, however, has to take his share of the blame, as his policy of rotating his players had some part to play in the disappointing result. He made seven changes from the side that lost 2-1 to Manchester City on Saturday, giving starting debuts to the midfield prodigy Gaël Kakuta and goalkeeper Ross Turnbull.
The Italian's rotation policy has seen him use 29 players this season. It was little wonder, then, that Chelsea began the match playing like strangers.
In recent weeks Ancelotti has been likened to his predecessors as manager – Luiz Felipe Scolari when Chelsea lose and Special One Jose Mourinho when they win. But increasingly he is coming to resemble his fellow countryman Claudio Ranieri with his desire to chop and change his side from one game to the next.
The performance of Kakuta, who was bright and inventive throughout, shone on a disappointing night for Chelsea. His touch was superb, and his confidence had clearly survived the embarrassment of missing the vital penalty in last week's shootout at Blackburn in the Carling Cup quarter-final.
It was his vision that was the most impressive component of his game, far greater than would perhaps be expected of one so young. Kakuta has the happy knack of making the right decision, playing the right ball, even when in the tightest of situations.
"Kakuta is the only one good thing for tonight," Ancelotti said. "He played well. He showed his talent, did some fantastic passes and one for the second goal. We have to look at him, stay calm, but I think he will be the future of Chelsea."
Chelsea started poorly. The back four were guilty of ball-watching in the sixth minute when Marcin Zewlakow received a cross from Constantinos Charalambides and scored at Turnbull's near post. The travelling fans, decked out in luminous orange shirts, went mad. In contrast the home supporters were silent, it being the first goal Chelsea had conceded at Stamford Bridge for a remarkable 968 minutes, since Hull's Stephen Hunt scored on the opening day of the season.
Apoel's strike served only to rouse Chelsea from their slumber. Joe Cole's header was ruled offside, but Michael Essien's strike from nearly 30 yards pulled them level.
Sadly for Essien, the Ghanaian was forced to limp out of the contest four minutes later with a hamstring injury which will rule him out of Saturday's match with Everton. Yuri Zhirkov then set up Didier Drogba to put Chelsea ahead in the 26th minute and the Premier League leaders should have gone on to score a couple more.
But it never quite happened. Joe Cole hit the bar with a speculative effort and John Terry had a goal disallowed for offside, but by and large Chelsea failed to threaten the Apoel goal. Their punishment came with three minutes left. John Obi Mikel tried to pass to Terry and substitute Mirosavljevic intercepted the ball before firing it past Turnbull in the Chelsea goal. Mikel hung his head in shame as Apoel players celebrated in front of their joyous supporters. Chelsea must show a vast improvement come on Saturday.

Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Turnbull; Belletti, Carvalho, Terry, Zhirkov; Essien (Lampard, 26), Mikel; Kakuta (Borini, 73), J Cole, Malouda; Drogba. Substitutes not used: Hilario (gk), Ivanovic, Anelka, Bruma, Philliskirk

Apoel Nicosia (4-5-1): Chiotis; Poursaitides, Paulo Jorge, Broerse, Haxhi (Elia, 34); Kosowski (Mirosavljevic, 71), Michail, Pinto, Morais, Charalambides; Zewlakow (Breska, 82). Substitutes not used: Kissas (gk), Papathanasiou, Satsias, Elia, Paulista.
Referee: M Trefoloni (Italy).

Group D
Results: Chelsea 1 Porto 0, Atletico Madrid 0 Apoel Nicosia 0; Porto 2 Atletico Madrid 0, Apoel Nicosia 0 Chelsea 1; Porto 2 Apoel Nicosia 1, Chelsea 4 Atletico Madrid 0; Apoel Nicosia 0 Porto 1, Atletico Madrid 2 Chelsea 2; Apoel Nicosia 1 Atletico Madrid 1, Porto 0 Chelsea 1; Atletico Madrid 0 Porto 3, Chelsea 2 Apoel Nicosia 2.

Chelsea's possible round of 16 opponents: Bayern Munich, CSKA Moscow, Milan, Fiorentina/Lyons, Barcelona/Internazionale/Rubin Kazan/Dynamo Kiev, Seville/Unirea Urziceni/Stuttgart, Olympiakos/Standard Liège.

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The Times

Gaël Kakuta shines but defensive lapses a worry for Chelsea and Carlo Ancelotti

Chelsea 2 Apoel 2

Matt Hughes, Deputy Football Correspondent

In his programme notes, John Terry described Saturday’s defeat by Manchester City as a wake-up call, but it went unheeded.
A particularly dozy piece of defending by John Obi Mikel enabled Nenad Mirosavljevic to score a late equalising goal that took Apoel into the Europa League. However, of greater significance was another poor performance from Chelsea that led Carlo Ancelotti to question their professionalism and mental strength.
The manager was brought to Chelsea to get his hands on the Champions League trophy, having won the competition twice as the coach of AC Milan, but on this evidence his side would have been better off dropping into the Europa League themselves.
The Italian admitted as much, launching an uncharacteristically strong attack on his players for a performance he derided as soft and the worst of his tenure. Given the looks on their faces as they stormed off the pitch in the driving rain at the final whistle, it appeared as if they did not need telling.
Chelsea remain top of the Barclays Premier League and have qualified for the next stage of the Champions League as group winners — to put this in context, Juventus went out last night and Inter Milan could join them this evening — so this blip cannot yet be characterised as the type of crisis that grips Stamford Bridge on an annual basis, but something is not right. In the past seven days Chelsea have conceded seven goals in failing to win three matches in three different competitions, a level of performance that will not be rewarded with silverware at the end of the season.
Ancelotti claimed that the praise lavished on his players after they demolished Arsenal ten days ago had not gone to their heads, although he was on surer ground when conceding that last night’s problem was psychological. Complacency has crept in. How else to explain the loss of two goals at each end of a game in which otherwise their dominance was manifest?
The tone for the evening was set by the club’s preening pre-match announcer, who, in a show of hubris that rebounded in his face, declared that Chelsea were going for a club-record eleventh successive home clean sheet.
Terry had also claimed in the programme that defeat by City was “not what Chelsea are about” — a description that could be aptly applied to Apoel’s opening goal, particularly because the captain was culpable. Constantinos Charalambides’s ball down the left caught Terry out of position, with Marcin Zewlakow beating the onrushing Ross Turnbull. It was the first goal Chelsea have conceded at Stamford Bridge since the opening day of the season.
Turnbull was deserving of considerable sympathy on his full debut for the club and he could not be blamed for Apoel’s 87th-minute equalising goal, either. Mikel lingered too long in possession after receiving the ball from Terry, with Mirosavljevic nicking it off his toes and calmly beating the former Middlesbrough goalkeeper from close range.
Chelsea dominated as well they should against such minnows in between those defensive lapses, without showing the killer instinct expected of potential champions. Michael Essien brought them back into the game with a stunning 25-yard drive in the nineteenth minute before limping off with a hamstring injury, but much of their best play was inspired by Gaël Kakuta. For better or worse, Kakuta appears to be attracted to the limelight like a moth to a flame, and he took advantage of a rare chance to impress before the club’s appeal against his four-month ban is heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport next year.
The 18-year-old possesses impressive vision for one so young and he used it to telling effect as Chelsea took the lead in the 26th minute. Playing just off Didier Drogba, Kakuta dropped deep to receive the ball, spraying it out to Yuri Zhirkov, whose cross from the left was clinically converted by the Ivory Coast striker for his sixteenth goal of the season. Kakuta was impressive on both flanks in the second half, creating several further chances that were spurned by Joe Cole and Florent Malouda, much to Ancelotti’s annoyance.
Alarm clock vendors in West London can expect some brisk trade.
Chelsea (4-2-3-1): R Turnbull — J Belletti, J Terry, R Carvalho, Y Zhirkov — J O Mikel, M Essien (sub: F Lampard, 26min) — J Cole, G Kakuta (sub: F Borini, 73), F Malouda — D Drogba. Substitutes not used: Hilário, B Ivanovic, N Anelka, J Bruma, D Philliskirk. Booked: Zhirkov.
Apoel (4-4-1-1): D Chiotis — S Poursaitides, J Broerse, P Jorge, A Haxhi (sub: M Elia, 35) — C Charalambides, N Morais, C Michail, K Kosowski (sub: N Mirosavljevic, 70) — H Pinto — M Zewlakow (sub: M Breska, 82). Substitutes not used: T Kissas, A Papathanasiou, M Satsias, J Paulista. Booked: Poursaitides.
Referee: M Trefoloni (Italy).

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Telegraph:

Chelsea 2 Apoel Nicosia 2
By Henry Winter at Stamford Bridge

Lapses in concentration continue to cost Chelsea dear. An under-hit back-pass by John Obi Mikel allowed Nenad Mirosavljevic to equalise in the last minute. The damage was only superficial, as Chelsea had already qualified, but they need to cut out such mistakes and quickly.
After Marcin Zewlakow had given Apoel an early lead, Chelsea dominated, scoring through Michael Essien, who then damaged his hamstring, and Didier Drogba. For all the eventual disappointment, Chelsea can still take heart from promising displays by Gaël Kakuta and Fabio Borini.
Unlike Chelsea, Apoel Nicosia had everything to play for, notably a shot at the Europa League, and their noisy fans quickly conveyed the early update that rivals Atletico Madrid were trailing to Porto, a situation that allowed the men from Nicosia to dream.
Their hopes grew as the rain fell. Chelsea were caught cold, stunned by a sudden Apoel break down the left after seven minutes. When Constantinos Charalambides, briefly on trial with Cardiff City, darted towards the box, space opened invitingly between Ricardo Carvalho and John Terry.
Charalambides slid the ball across and there was Zewlakow, the Polish international with ice in his veins, beating Ross Turnbull with the coolest of low finishes.
Perhaps it was the shock at conceding a first goal at home in 16 hours eight minutes that stirred Chelsea. Perhaps it was the angry vibes emanating from Ancelotti, whose mood momentarily matched his pall-bearer’s coat, that made his players their game. The desire to avoid a third defeat on the spin also coloured Chelsea’s thoughts and movements.
Some of Ancelotti’s players had reputations to make. Gaël Kakuta, small and sinewy, looked lively on the right side behind Drogba. Yuri Zhirkov is an established Russian international, one of the stars of euro 2008, but his immersion in Chelsea life has been slow.
If the jury had been out, they returned last night, smoking cigars and raising large glasses of vodka in toast to the excellent Russian. Zhirkov looks another highly polished cog in the Chelsea machine.
Starting in the absence of Ashley Cole, Zhirkov defended assiduously, tackling nimbly and dealing firmly with any aerial threat that fell his way.
Moving down the left, the Russian’s quick feet were a constant delight as he supplied real width and penetration, dovetailing well with Florent Malouda.
When Zhirkov managed to poke the ball back to Malouda, the Frenchman whipped in a great cross that was met by an equally fine header from Joe Cole. The ball sped into the back of the net but Cole’s celebrations were cut short by a linesman flagging for offside. He was – just.
Chelsea maintained their assault on the Cypriots’ jugular and deservedly turned around ahead. Their 19th-minute equaliser was a bolt from the blue in every sense.
When Malouda rolled the ball to Essien 25 yards out, the danger appeared modest. Drifting to the right of Chrysostomos Michail, Essien suddenly brought his right foot down into the ball, beating Dionisios Chiotis with an unstoppable shot that sped at the keeper and then moved away, deceiving him utterly.
If Essien ever turns his hand to cricket, Ghana could have a useful swing bowler.
Unfortunately for Chelsea, Essien then limped away, having extended his hamstring stretching for a ball in that usual committed way of his. As he hobbled towards the tunnel, Essien’s face bore a mixture of pain and frustration.
As Frank Lampard quickly stripped for action, Chelsea made light of being down to 10 men, seizing the lead with a magnificent move. When Carvalho stroked the ball through the middle to Kakuta, there was still so much for the young Frenchman to do.
Kakuta impressed with not only his imaginative response but also his neat execution of a clever idea. Spotting Zhirkov running down the inside-left channel, Kakuta slid a superb pass through Apoel’s defence.
Zhirkov immediately drilled the ball into the box for Drogba to score with a terrific first-time strike.
Chelsea remained in total control. Drogba went close with a free kick. Juliano Belletti, charging down the right, sent a low shot angling across Apoel’s goal. Joe Cole was full of good movement much to the delight of the Chelsea fans, who clearly prefer the Englishman to Deco.
When Cole lifted over a cross that drifted on to the bar, the Matthew Harding Stand serenaded the ball all the way, sighing when it clipped the woodwork and fell away. With 19 minutes remaining, Cole then slid in to win the ball, setting up Malouda, whose shot skimmed wide.
Having shown genuine promise, Kakuta was tiring. Sensibly, Ancelotti removed him, greeting his arrival in the dugout with a paternal smile.
Another of Chelsea’s prospects, Fabio Borini, raced on. Prolific for the reserves last season, the teenaged Italian has impressed Ancelotti’s coaching staff by his hunger for extra shooting practice, regularly staying behind after training to work with Ray Wilkins. Borini almost scored with an adroit turn and shot.
If Tuesday night reflected the enduring importance of senior players like Essien and Drogba, and outstanding new recruits like Zhirkov, then it was impossible to ignore the young ones pushing for contention.
Apoel brought on Mario Breska, who resembled Tomas Brolin in his cheesecake-eating prime, and most significantly Mirosavljevic, who seized on Mikel’s gift, sprinted through and placed the ball through Turnbull’s legs.

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Guardian:

Michael Essien injury and Mikel John Obi error mar Chelsea show
Chelsea 2 Essien 19, Drogba 26 Apoel Nicosia 2 Zewlakow 6, Mirosavljevic 87
Dominic Fifield at Stamford Bridge

A defensive lapse by Mikel John Obi, above, let in substitute Nenad Mirosavljevic to score for Apoel Nicosia late in the game. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP
Chelsea's breeze through their Champions League group campaign has culminated with something of a shudder. Sloppiness has replaced stinginess in the last week to offer rivals hope that Carlo Ancelotti's team are far from unstoppable. This should have been a walkover, so many chances did Chelsea create in a one-sided first period, though it ended feeling more like a minor embarrassment.
The grand send-off for a side that had strolled through this qualifying section was drowned out by the defiant celebrations of the considerable contingent from Cyprus at the final whistle. The visiting Apoel Nicosia players linked hands and saluted their supporters in the Shed end having been denied progress into the Europa League only by an inferior head-to-head record against Atlético Madrid. Their fans roared their approval at the substitute Nenad Mirosavljevic's equaliser three minutes from time, the visiting coach, Ivan Jovanovic, eulogising a "magnificent result against one of the best teams in Europe".
Chelsea's players slunk from the scene. This game had meant little to them, attentions fixed on their diminished lead in the Premier League. This was an opportunity to give the likes of Gaël Kakuta and Ross Turnbull valuable time on the pitch. Yet the mistakes made will now be painstakingly, and painfully dissected by Ancelotti and his staff. What was of real concern was that it was senior players who committed the errors that wrecked Chelsea's staggering defensive record in this arena. This selection, albeit far from a first-choice line-up, looked anything but watertight.
The slackness was summed up by Mirosavljevic's goal. Chelsea meandered through the second half and failed to add to their slender advantage. Even so, there seemed little threat when John Terry played a short pass to Mikel John Obi with the clock ticking towards full-time, only for Mirosavljevic, sensing complacency, to seize upon the return. Mikel could only look on aghast as the Serb sprang forward and slipped his shot through Turnbull's legs to hoist the Cypriots level. Terry, like his manager, was apoplectic.
Chelsea were unrecognisable from the rearguard that suffocated the life from all-comers for months here. They had gone 968 minutes without being breached, a run stretching back to Stephen Hunt's goal for Hull on the opening day, before Apoel caught them cold some six minutes in. They might have scored with their first attack when Joost Broerse forced Turnbull to block but they did with their second. Constantinos Charalambides wriggled free down the left and slipped his pass beyond Terry for Marcin Zewlakow to collect and poke home.
By the end Ancelotti had seen his team — albeit only once his first-choice selection — concede seven times in less than a week. None of those matches has yielded a victory and, while Chelsea are far from gripped with a sense of foreboding at the challenges ahead, they will be desperate to return to their imposing best when Everton visit on Saturday. At least their forward play purred while their game still boasted first-half intensity.
They should have buried the visitors by the break – the shot tally read 27 to six on the final whistle – but managed only two beautifully taken goals. Against Apoel they did not prove enough. There were injury concerns, too, with which to contend. Michael Essien limped away with a hamstring strain sustained in a tackle moments after he levelled for Chelsea from distance with a rasping attemptthat fizzed beyond Dionisios Chiotis into the corner. The Ghanaian will require a scan at Cobham today and will be absent against Everton. This team will miss his energy.
The second goal was slicker, born of Kakuta's beautiful pass inside Savvas Poursaitides for Yuri Zhirkov to collect. The Russian claimed the assist by pulling back for Didier Drogba to convert, though it was the 18-year-old Frenchman who took the plaudits. This was a remarkably mature display, marked by flashes of wonderful quality – the passes slipped through to Zhirkov and, later, Joe Cole caught the breath – to prompt Ancelotti's assessment that Kakuta was the "one good thing" to come out of the experience. Sterner tests than this await after Christmas. Such sloppiness will not be permitted again.

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Mail:

Chelsea 2 APOEL Nicosia 2:
Michael Essien's hamstring injury is agony to the Blues
By Matt Barlow

Carlo Ancelotti stood in the rain, hands sunk deep in his pockets, and scowled as Michael Essien first underlined his immense value to Chelsea, then limped off clutching his hamstring.Is there any wonder managers send out the youth players for these games at the fag end of the Champions League group stage?In a game which barely mattered, Chelsea were nowhere near their best and narrowly avoided the ignominy of a third defeat in seven days. But there were enough things to irritate Ancelotti.His team were complacent at the start, surrendering an early lead to APOEL, and sloppy in the closing minutes when John Mikel Obi’s mistake presented Nenad Mirosavljevic with an equaliser.
In between, there were wonderful goals for Essien and Didier Drogba but Essien’s injury will be the greatest concern. He definitely misses Saturday’s game against Everton.Chelsea’s squad may not yet look quite as depleted as Manchester United’s but the weight of fixtures is taking its toll and players will be lost to the Africa Cup of Nations at the end of this month. Salomon Kalou is out for two weeks with a thigh injury and Ancelotti rested Michael Ballack, Ashley Cole and Alex, who were all nursing slight aches and strains.Petr Cech was replaced by Ross Turnbull, making his full debut and picking the ball out of the net after only six minutes. John Terry declared himself fit despite a cut on his knee but his back four started shakily.Turnbull had already been forced into one save before Constantinos Charalambides darted down APOEL’s left and crossed low for Marcin Zewlakow to score.
After 10 successive clean sheets at Stamford Bridge, it was the first goal conceded by Chelsea at home in 968 minutes. The previous one was scored by Stephen Hunt for Hull in August.Ancelotti’s team, who won Group D with a victory in Porto two weeks ago, woke up once they went behind. Joe Cole thought he had levelled within five minutes, leaping at the near post to head in Florent Malouda’s cross, but it was disallowed for offside.The decision looked marginal but Essien stepped forward to smash in the equaliser. The Ghanaian collected a short pass in midfield, side-stepped a defender and unleashed a 25-yarder which took a slight deflection and swerved past Dionisios Chiotis.
Unfortunately, it was Essien’s last significant contribution. He injured his hamstring moments later and hobbled off in pain.Chelsea went ahead with 10 men as the bench hurriedly prepared to send on Frank Lampard. Drogba finished a slick passing move involving Gael Kakuta and Yuri Zhirkov with his 16th goal in 20 games this season. Not bad for a player who doesn’t do a lot, according to Arsene Wenger.
Kakuta, also making his full debut, impressed with his footwork and vision. Chelsea are being careful not to over-expose the French 18-year-old, who has found himself at the centre of controversy since FIFA imposed a transfer ban on Chelsea for recruiting him illegally.The ban has been suspended pending an appeal next year but Kakuta’s talent commands attention.He was eventually replaced by Italian teenager Fabio Borini, who also looked sharp. Cole and Malouda went close as Chelsea wasted chances for a third and slowly the momentum swung back to APOEL, who needed a win to qualify for the Europa League.Mikel must take the blame for the late equaliser. He controlled a short pass from Terry and tried to return the ball to his captain, only to leave it short.Mirosavljevic burst on to the error, charging into the penalty area before driving a shot under Turnbull’s dive.APOEL’s noisy supporters tried to cheer their team on to a winner and Zhirkov had to make a desperate clearance in stoppage time to prevent another defeat.

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Sun:

Chelsea 2 APOEL Nic 2
MARK IRWIN at Stamford Bridge

OK CHELSEA, time to stop the rot.

To surrender the lead once is bad enough. To do it three times in a week is unforgivable.
Going out of the Carling Cup on penalties at Blackburn was one they could shrug off.
But defeat in the Premier League at Manchester City suggested that Chelsea might not be quite as good as they think they are.
Those suspicions were confirmed last night as they were denied victory yet again by a late APOEL equaliser.
In the grand scheme of things, the loss of two points is no real handicap to Chelsea's European ambitions.
They still finished top of Group D and remain unbeaten at Stamford Bridge in their last 30 games.
Yet Carlo Ancelotti fears a disturbing complacency has crept into his team's play since they crushed Arsenal at the Emirates at the end of last month. And the Italian knows he must get to grips with the malaise - before it finishes him off.
The Chelsea boss does not need reminding Phil Scolari was given the boot after a not dissimilar run of results earlier this year.
And a £6.5million-a-year contract will be no insurance against the elbow if things do not improve dramatically.
Qualification for the knockout stages of the Champions League is the bare minimum for Ancelotti. But Roman Abramovich is not paying top dollar just to get through to the last 16.
He expects the biggest trophy in European football - and he is not a man who tolerates failure.
It was Ancelotti's success in lifting the Champions League twice with AC Milan which landed him the highest-paid manager's job in the world.
But he can forget those lofty ambitions if this week's dismal efforts are anything to go by.
And now the real hard work starts as Chelsea prepare for next week's second-round draw in Switzerland.
Any illusions that Ancelotti might have harboured about the strength of his squad were shattered as they struggled and failed to see off the Cypriot champions.
Never in his worst nightmares would he have imagined any team of his being put through the wringer by APOEL Nicosia.
Yet those fears were realised after just six minutes last night when skipper John Terry was unable to deal with a low cross before Marcin Zewlakow fired past keeper Ross Turnbull.
For Turnbull, making his first start for Chelsea, it was a dismal way to begin his Stamford Bridge career even though he was not to blame.
It was the first goal Chelsea had conceded at home in 968 minutes of action since Stephen Hunt netted for Hull on the opening day of the season
At least Ancelotti could have no complaints about his team's response.
They should have been level after 12 minutes when Joe Cole headed in Florent Malouda's cross to the near post but was harshly ruled offside.
But they equalised on 19 minutes thanks to Michael Essien. Accepting a short pass from Malouda, the powerful Ghanaian shrugged off Michail's challenge and rifled in a ferocious 25-yard drive.
But that was to prove Essien's final contribution as he limped off with a damaged hamstring.
Chelsea went ahead as Gael Kakuta's perfectly-weighted pass into the channel found Yuri Zhirkov.
The Russian put the ball into the danger zone and Drogba applied an emphatic finish for his 16th goal of the season.
But the noisy Cypriot fans had something to sing about three minutes from the end when Jon Obi Mikel sold Terry short with a sloppy pass and sub Nenad Mirosavljevic struck.
Seven goals conceded in the space of seven days by a team which prides itself on its rock-solid defence.
Not good enough Carlo. Must do better Chelsea.

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