{"id":623033,"date":"2026-04-22T07:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623033\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:07:09","slug":"most-difficult-night-liam-rosenior-hits-out-at-chelseas-attitude-after-brighton-blow-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623033\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Most difficult night\u2019: Liam Rosenior hits out at Chelsea\u2019s attitude after Brighton blow | Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liam Rosenior bemoaned the \u201cmost difficult night\u201d in offering no defence of his Chelsea players after they slumped to a 3-0 defeat by Brighton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy far,\u201d Rosenior replied when asked if this was the toughest day of his short Chelsea<\/a> tenure. Questions of whether he survives in his position as head coach until Sunday\u2019s FA Cup semi-final with Leeds will be floated after his team\u2019s abject performance.<\/p>\n

Rosenior said after Chelsea\u2019s fifth consecutive league defeat without scoring: \u201cThat was unacceptable in every aspect of the game. Unacceptable in the attitude. I keep coming out and defending the players, but that\u2019s unacceptable tonight.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething needs to change drastically right here, right now. We need to look in the mirror. I can\u2019t keep coming out here defending some of the things we\u2019re seeing. General attitude, spirit, was lacking, determination, maybe three or four out of the 11, that\u2019s nowhere near enough for this club. I can\u2019t come out and lie, that was an unacceptable performance for this club.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goals from Ferdi Kadioglu, Jack Hinshelwood and Danny Welbeck did the damage for a rampant Brighton against a Chelsea team without Cole Palmer, initially playing in an unfamiliar 3-5-2 formation.<\/p>\n

Rosenior\u2019s postmortem was stark: \u201cNowhere near the levels, not even tactical, tackles, duels, intensity, spirit, energy, passion all lacking and that is the reason we lost. I feel numb. I\u2019m so angry. I always speak on what I see and that was unacceptable. The goals we conceded were unacceptable and that is something I have to hold my hands up to.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former Brighton player and coach said: \u201cThe performance, in terms of professionalism, wasn\u2019t there. It\u2019s a really, really difficult night. The most difficult night here at this magnificent club in my career. Some of the things I was witnessing today, I never want to see again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brighton leapfrogged the visitors in sixth place, closing on a return to European football next season. Their head coach, Fabian H\u00fcrzeler, said of their rise up the table: \u201cIt is not that important for us. We must keep focusing on performance and keep focusing on what we can do right. We have high expectations of ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Rosenior bemoaned the \u201cmost difficult night\u201d in offering no defence of his Chelsea players after they slumped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-623033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623033","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=623033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}