Conor Coady is putting Chelsea’s 4-1 loss to Newcastle United on Saturday down to one thing.
The Leicester City defender was speaking about the game on The Monday Night Club yesterday.
It is a match that Chelsea will quickly want to forget about, with barely anything going right for them in the 90 minutes.
Raheem Sterling did give supporters one thing to smile about with a fantastic free-kick. But other than that, the game was a complete disaster.
Mauricio Pochettino had even threatened to make the team train the next day, though he did not go through with it in the end.
Conor Coady’s Chelsea theory
Coady thinks complacency is to blame for Chelsea’s defeat at St James’ Park.
On The Monday Night Club, the England international said: “I think from my own point of view and I don’t know because I’m not in the Chelsea dressing room, but I think a bit of complacency. You go from having that high against Manchester City, and I thought it was a fantastic game and playing really well and scoring a last minute goal and all these different things, then going and playing a bit of a depleted Newcastle and I think what the Chelsea manager there said is everything you can’t go to Newcastle with and be.
“Newcastle will eat you up and spit you back out really, because of how they play and how full throttle they are. So you can’t go there and do what he said, so I don’t know whether it was a bit of complacency after a good game against Man City and you think now we are going to Newcastle, but you go there and do that and Newcastle will play well.”
Were Chelsea complacent against Newcastle?
Given the form that they were in and the fact that Newcastle’s squad is a bit depleted, it is a possibility.
But the reason why Pochettino’s side lost is because they were just poor and made some ridiculous mistakes.
Marc Cucurella stepping up and trying to play Newcastle offside cost Chelsea for the first goal, while Thiago Silva’s howler cost them another.
You cannot forget about Reece James’ daft red card as well, which came from two yellows that could have easily been avoided.
A bit of complacency, perhaps, but also utter madness from the team’s defenders on the day.
Hopefully they can now bounce back when they take on Brighton & Hove Albion on Sunday, but that will not be an easy game either.
Another defeat, though, is going to be problematic, with Pochettino really starting to feel the heat now.
You really would have to start fearing for him if Chelsea lost against the Seagulls, which is a guarantee if they play like how they did at St James’ Park.
