“Steady on” – Former Chelsea player says people need to calm down on Chelsea’s progress | OneFootball

Former Chelsea winger Pat Nevin says people need to relax on Chelsea’s progress because they are not there yet.

Nevin was watching Chelsea lose to Bayern Munich last night and was on the commentary for BBC Radio 5 Live.

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His opinions on his former club are always valid and listened to a lot, and he’s had pretty mixed views on the club since the new owners came in.

I found some comments that Nevin made during the game last night and wrote up on them this morning. But he was basically spot on by saying that Bayern Munich were all over Chelsea down the right hand side during period of the game.

Although Cole Palmer got a goal back to make it 2-1 to Bayern with a superb finish in typical Palmer fashion, it was not quite enough as Harry Kane went on to make it 3-1 in the second half and make it game over in the first Champions League match of the new campaign for both sides.

What Nevin has said

Pat Nevin being interviewed.

“It was the kind of performance I expected,” Nevin told the Football Daily podcast.

“A lot of people were saying to us before that they are just about to break into that elite and they’re World Club Champions and I’m thinking ‘steady on’.

“The jump you need to make when you come to places like this is quite big. A number of players just don’t have that experience yet and they have to learn a little bit.

“We don’t know – they’ve bought very young players – are they going to be able to dominate games at this level? We don’t really know.

“You need to learn how to do it and find out if you’re good enough and have the personality and then do it for a while.

“Chelsea were not able to dominate as a group. They looked a good distance behind Bayern Munich but then many teams who come here do because it’s a tough, tough place to come.”

I don’t think he’s wrong at all with this either. Chelsea are not quite there yet.