Gary Neville: Chelsea could cost the Champions League location with a ‘frustrating’ response to the defeat of Man City | Football news
Gary Neville remained “frustrated” due to the lack of response from Chelsea after halftime, while Manchester City came from behind to be beat 3-1 in a defeat he believed he could hurt their hope in the Champions League.
Chelsea flew in the third minute at Etihad Stadium over Noni Madueka and could have been 2-0 in front, but for a missed passage from Cole Palmer, and Nicolas Jackson waited for the findings.
However, after the rise of the city and the equalization of Joska Guardiol three minutes before the break, the hosts dominated the game in the second period, and Chelsea registered only one shot on the target, and the XG of 0.18 compared to 1,62 in the first half.
Speaking o Gary Neville PodcastNeville revealed his disturbance that Chelsea’s midfielder failed to abolish his authority at the match after halftime and why it could cost them the Champions League location, and the blues are now sixth in the Premier League.
“I expected Chelsea to go out quickly in the second half because I was expecting [Enzo] Maresca at halftime to have them right to release City in the game. I didn’t see the answer, “he said.
“Two midfielders [Caicedo and Fernandez] Whether you are a big dollar players, you got big prices on your back, you have a big reputation, you are good players.
“Fantastic players go and go to the top of the game and grab it by the neck. With Palmer in that midfield they didn’t do so, so I’m pretty frustrated with Chelsea in the second half.
“I don’t go to them because I think they had a really good season, but I’m really frustrated by what I saw, because I think they’ll look back and think you could have done more – it’s the worst feeling.
“That could cost them the Champions League next season. They should have really sent a message to Manchester City, and they weren’t. I’m not. I’m not Chelsea fan, but I’m a football fan and I would be filled with my team.”
‘Palmer played PEP after the game’
Neville touched the textbook from Pep Guardiola after the game, when the city boss approached his former player Cole Palmer for compensating on the field with both men who laughed as they moved to the tunnel.
Former Manchester United captain was less than impressed that Palmer “played” his former boss on the back of his current side defeat – and expanded their bad form to one win in seven in the Premier League.
“Cole, you’re playing here,” Neville said.
“You didn’t do enough on that field in the second half, and he’s an amazing player. But you know something, those Chelsea fans who traveled today, three or four thousand in that distant corner, they really didn’t want to see how you talk to the opposition manager and smiling at the end of the game.
“I’m not an old school here too, but something is about it, I thought,” Pep Guardiola and play here. “
“I know he had it, but he didn’t play it and he sold it so he should have ignored him and went straight back to the locker room. Talk in the locker room, I didn’t against it – he obviously played for the manager, but in the end I felt there was something there In connection with what I didn’t feel like it was from the perspective of Cole Palmer.
“I know why Pep Guardiola did this – this is what Pep Guardiola does, but I wouldn’t lose 3-1 away from home. I expected more than him in the second half.”
