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·20 September 2025
“Worst we’ve played… we’re not kids anymore” – Chelsea player slams his teammates for performance

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·20 September 2025
Trevoh Chalobah has spoken to Sky Sports following Chelsea’s 2-1 defeat to Man U at Old Trafford.
The Blues were down to ten men early on after Robert Sanchez’s red card, and from there things went really wrong. Enzo Maresca made defensive subs but the team went 2-0 down anyway.
Even a red card for Man U and Chalobah’s late goal wasn’t enough to spark much for a broken looking Blues team.
Robert Sanchez trudges off. (Photo by Jan Kruger/Getty Images)
“We have to look at ourselves as players. It wasn’t good enough for ourselves, for the club. The first 15 minutes is the worst we’ve played this season. We have to reflect on that as a team and learn from this,” the defender said.
“With the red card that happens, you go 2-0 down in the game, any team you play against, it’s always difficult coming back. We struggled in the first half. It’s always difficult going down to 10 men and you can see that United were up for it. They put us under pressure. It wasn’t good enough at our end. We couldn’t get going in the first half.
“Things like this happen in the season. We can’t say we’re kids anymore, we’ve played in the Premier League long enough now. We have just got to learn from this and move forward.”
That’s just the kind of honesty we want from our players. Today was not good enough, and all of the promise of a good summer is draining away pretty rapidly. Man U may be a big team but they’re not a good team, and losing today is a disaster in the long run.
The league looks really strong this year and we’re dropping points steadily already.