{"id":456854,"date":"2026-02-04T01:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456854\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:41:07","slug":"dont-go-out-like-that-chelsea-torn-to-shreds-by-paul-merson-for-playing-like-a-bottom-four-team-in-limp-carabao-cup-semi-final-exit-to-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456854\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Don&#8217;t go out like that!&#8217; &#8211; Chelsea torn to shreds by Paul Merson for playing like a &#8216;bottom four team&#8217; in limp Carabao Cup semi-final exit to Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Chelsea players seemed to take the defeat especially hard, including defender Wesley Fofana, who looked to be tearing up when he was snapped by the cameras at full-time.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Sky Sports, Merson said: &#8220;I am numb, I am flabbergasted. I can&#8217;t believe what I have just watched. I honestly can&#8217;t believe what I have just watched.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arsenal fans and the players themselves&#8230;this is Chelsea\u00a0Football\u00a0Club. They have got international football players, a World Cup winner. They have got players all over&#8230;this is not a bottom four or five team, they have just come here&#8230;they should be crying because they never had a go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am lost for words, I cannot believe what&#8217;s just happened. They have gone out with an absolute whimper in the semi-final of a big competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it worked it was great but if it hasn&#8217;t worked, you can&#8217;t gamble like that. Have a go and go out in a blaze of glory. Don&#8217;t go out like that. I am lost for words.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Chelsea players seemed to take the defeat especially hard, including defender Wesley Fofana, who looked to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[3361,235332,64,63,72779,6187,596,1614,85],"class_list":["post-456854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-arsenal-vs-chelsea","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carabao-cup","tag-chelsea","tag-football","tag-premier-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}