Chelsea shockingly lost 2 matches to Brighton in just 4 days, coach spoke bitterly

Chelsea just lost 1-2 to Brighton in the 4th round of the FA Cup on February 9. In the next match, also away from home, coach Maresca's team could not take revenge, but instead suffered a heavy defeat with a score of 0-3.

Coach Maresca is increasingly under pressure due to Chelsea's decline

Japanese star striker Mitoma opened the scoring in the 27th minute, before striker Minteh scored twice in the 38th and 63rd minutes to bring Brighton consecutive victories against Chelsea. Thereby, coach Fabian Hurzeler's team rose to 8th place in the Premier League with 37 points, and still have to compete in the 5th round of the FA Cup against Newcastle.

Meanwhile, Chelsea have not stopped their downward trend since December 2024 with the injury crisis, causing them to win only 2, draw 3 and lose 4 matches. "The Blues" are still temporarily ranked 4th with 43 points after 25 matches, but behind Man City, Newcastle (41 points) and Bournemouth (40 points) can completely usurp them in the next 1-2 rounds.

This is a complete contrast to Chelsea at the start of the season, when they started strongly, were always in the top group and were strong candidates for the title. But then gradually fell further and further behind the leaders Liverpool and second-placed Arsenal, as well as the phenomenon Nottingham Forest.

Coach Maresca therefore had to say bitterly: "I always feel pressure. But I can say that today is the worst performance of the whole team since I came to lead Chelsea. Obviously, this is not the best time. However, we are still in 4th place and still in the race to complete our goal well."

Coach Maresca also expressed: "We really feel sorry for the fans who came here. At the moment and in our current position. With 14 games left, maybe we need to do much better, much better than what we did today."

However, Chelsea continuously received bad news about their squad when Noni Madueke was injured, before that Nico Jackson and Marc Guiu, significantly weakening their attack.

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