Alan Shearer was left aghast at Chelsea’s poor defending of their defeat to Arsenal on Sunday, singling out Marc Cucurella for scrutiny.
Arsenal beat Chelsea 1-0 at Stamford Bridge with Gabriel Magalhaes poking house from shut vary after Bukayo Saka’s nook deceived everybody and sailed by the field.
The objective quite summed up Chelsea’s afternoon, with Graham Potter’s facet placing in an especially sloppy efficiency each offensively and defensively towards their London rivals who totally deserved the three factors.
Analysing the sport on Match of the Day 2, Shearer may merely not consider how dangerous the defending was for the nook that led to the objective and highlighted Cucurella’s position in it.
The left-back stood proper on the centre of the goal-mouth, holding onto Granit Xhaka, and easily stood nonetheless because the objective handed him and fell on a plate to Gabriel.
‘It’s embarrassing from a Chelsea standpoint,’ Premier League legend Shearer mentioned.
‘So many gamers may have cleared it, whether or not it’s [Kai] Havertz or [Thiago] Silva. The keeper [Edouard Mendy] isn’t given an opportunity. It wasn’t even an awesome ball in.
‘Have a look at Cucurella in there with Xhaka. He doesn’t transfer in any respect. He simply holds Xhaka, there’s nothing in any respect from him!’
‘It says, “my man just isn't going to attain”, however he’s taken that actually!’ fellow pundit Micah Richards added.
‘All he has to do is transfer an inch to the left and he can clear it! I don’t perceive what he was pondering there in any respect.’
Shearer was equally damning of Chelsea’s assault, including: ‘They might nonetheless be there now they usually nonetheless wouldn’t have scored such was their lack of high quality within the ultimate third.
‘They bought into one or two first rate positions, not many, however once they did their ultimate ball was horrible.’
‘Havertz takes method too many touches when he will get to the field, it was far too straightforward for Arsenal to get males again behind the ball. Right this moment they'd no likelihood of scoring.’
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