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Chelsea Top 10 Worst Defeats This Decade




Ugh. We had The Good, The Great... now time for The Ugly, finalizing this thread trilogy. Enjoy, or not!

10 – Chelsea 0-2 Swansea (League Cup 2012-13)

Fat Spanish Waiter era was painful, tho we had some fine last months that included a decent 3rd place finish and a Europa League title. The first few months had the most toxic atmosphere I’ve ever seen at the bridge, within months we went from a club legend winning our biggest trophy ever to playing Europa with a manager that shit on us in the past. Some stupid defeats with clearly selection and rotation mistakes from Benitez drove the team to some crappy results at home, like a 0-1 defeat to last placed QPR. But after the League Cup semifinal draw appointed that we were the last big team remaining, a trophy seemed like a big possibility in the beggining of 2013, until a horrible, poorly selected (insisting on out-of-form Torres instead of Ba) match from FSW side saw us outplayed and beaten at home by Swansea. The away match saw Hazard embarassingly kicking their ball boy. Swansea went to win easily the final 5-0.

09 – Chelsea 2-4 Bradford City (FA Cup 2014-15)

Mourinho rotated the side that was top of the league but hardly played inexperienced players, starting figures like Zouma, Ramires, Mikel and Loic Remy. We went 2-0 up at home against a side that was 6th on League One and somehow ended up losing 4-2, losing our biggest chance so far to win a domestic treble since we were on the way to win both Premier League and League Cup. Simply embarassing.

08 – Chelsea 2-2 PSG (Champions League 2014-15)

This match exemplifies that this decade, while we won our CL and reached a semi final, showed our absolute decline in top european football. With Ibrahimovic sent off early, we were top of the league and had everything to kick PSG out again at the bridge. We opened the score with Cahill and somehow bottled to a late David Luiz header. The former and future Chelsea player said before that he would refuse to celebrate, but he did like a cunt. Then we won a penalty in extra time, Hazard making it 2-1, only to soon after bottle again from a Thiago Silva header. We were out of the Champions League at home playing with an extra man.

07 – Juventus 3-0 Chelsea (Champions League 2012-13)

Honeymoon was over for european champion Di Matteo as Antonio Conte’s Juventus trashed the Mazacar experimente. The dream turned into a nightmare: we would soon be the first Champions League winner to quit the competition in group stage the next year. Di Matteo would soon be sacked, replaced by Rafael Benitez for the disgust of our supporters. A season full of hope went to shit in a couple of months, and Di Matteo showed that he was probably more a great motivator to the old guard a few months before than any sort of top manager, being easily out-tacticed by Conte, his best card on the sleeve was playing young Azpilicueta on the midfield, trying to emulate the Bertrand experimente. He would never coach at a top team again.

06 – Chelsea 2-3 United (Premier League 2012-13)

A daylight robery that was probably one of the games that buried the Mazacar dream. We played fantastic offensive football completely dominating United at home, then the referee somehow sent off both Ivanovic and Torres without much explanation. We were still holding them at 2-2, then a completely clearly offside goal from our nemesis Hernandez saw that crappy United side that somehow won the league that year winning 3-2. I generally think that referees make mistakes like players, but this and that 1-1 against Barca a few years before were the only matches that I truly believe the officials had some kind of hidden agenda to favour those teams.

05 – Bournemouth 3-0 / 4-0 / 1-0 Chelsea (Premier League 2017-18/2018-19/2019-20)

These three defeats were so similar that I included them together, and I could have included that Bakayoko day againt Watford here too. Both Conte pragmatics andSarriballs idealistics were similarly trashed by lower table side Bournemouth, with Lampard’s youth revolution also failing to beat them. It shows the insane inconsistency to our side all over the decade and how in those past years we were clearly below the top contenders.

04 – Chelsea 1-2 Arsenal (FA Cup Final 2016-17)

A completely apathetic performance from a full strenght side that won the league weeks before with record points saw us losing the FA Cup final to a Arsenal side that was completely destroyed by injuries, playing Mertesacker as a libero to replicate our 3-4-3. They deservedly win, Moses was stupidly sent off, no one appeared. The most annoying final defeat I’ve seen from us, we generally step up for those matches, that day it seemed like we didn’t even care, playing in a pathethic comfort zone, believing it was already won, while Arsenal played with their hearts.

03 – Barcelona 3-0 Chelsea (Champions League 2017-18)

We played a pretty good match (Willian’s best ever for us) at home, that could have even with more goals if wasn’t for the bar and for a stupid Christensen mistake. We were playing well again away and then Lionel Messi and more stupid mistakes saw us getting trashed in Camp Nou. We were always a pain in the ass for that Barca side, we were the only team that Messi didn’t score against. Those things were simply not true anymore, with Messi scoring 3 times against us and the Camp Nou, who saw tense 0-0 and 2-2 in the past meetings between us, saw Barca playing like training and oleing us. They finally got their revenge but soon they would face a complete humilliation bottling a huge league against a Roma side, so at least we can say that we lost on porpuse because we knew that was going to happen.

02 – City 6-0 Chelsea (Premier Legue 2018-19)

This isn’t indicative of Chelsea becoming a small team or anything. We won a trophy that season, played a pretty good match against City few weeks later in the League Cup final, and ended up top 3. But the 6-0 is melancholic because it shows that we are miles away from the level that City and Liverpool play right now, and it might take a long time to be fighting for the PL title again. Like I said, this was fruit much more of Sarri’s naive, stupid tactics playing a high line against a side like City away (a mistake he didn’t commit in the tight 0-0 final) than of we being a side bad enough to lose like that, but the humilliation still here and it says a lot that 10 years before it was us trashing them 6-0.

01 – Chelsea 1-2 Sunderland (Premier League 2013-14)

This didn’t have the Gerrard slippery and the media attention that Liverpool trauma had the season, but it worked exactly the same for us. We were on path to win the title like season, depending only on us, opening the score with Samuel Eto’o at home. Sunderland equalisier after Schwarzer rebounded a Marcos Alonso (!!) shot, and won in the end thanks to a scandalous mistake from the referee, giving them a penalty on former loan soldier Borini. We lost the first match at home that season. We lost the first match home with Mourinho ever. We lost the title that day. We were robbed, sure, but we had only ourselves to blame unnable to win a easy match at home. This defeat made clear the weak points of that team, being bad penetration and crappy strikers, corrected next year by Fabregas and Costa. But that was a league title that was easily on our way after a pretty solid campaign and we screwed up in the most painful, traumatic fashion. I might be up for personal preferences but for me it doesn’t get worse than that.

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