{"id":352334,"date":"2026-03-18T09:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/352334\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:33:11","slug":"enzo-fernandez-hints-at-chelsea-departure-after-psg-humiliation-as-liam-rosenior-tries-to-put-a-brave-face-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/352334\/","title":{"rendered":"Enzo Fernandez hints at Chelsea departure after PSG humiliation as Liam Rosenior tries to put a brave face on it"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blues\u2019 vice-captain was speaking after Chelsea\u2019s 3-0 thrashing by PSG at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday night, which sealed an 8-2 humiliation at the hands of the European champions. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Bradley Barcola scored early goals to kill any hope of a dramatic comeback, before substitute Senny Mayulu added a third in the second half.<\/p>\n

Fernandez joined Chelsea for \u00a3107m as one of BlueCo\u2019s first major transfers. He has been one of the team\u2019s best performers in an underwhelming season so far, with 12 goals and six assists in 45 appearances, but the midfielder refused to commit his future to the club.<\/p>\n

Asked where he would be playing next season, Fernandez told ESPN Argentina: \u201cI don\u2019t know. There are eight games left [of the Premier League season] and the FA Cup. There\u2019s the World Cup and then we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fernandez\u2019s departure would be a major blow to manager Liam Rosenior. The midfielder has developed a knack of arriving in the box to score important goals, and his experience as a World Cup winner is invaluable as part of what is the Premier League\u2019s youngest squad.<\/p>\n

\"Individual<\/p>\n

Individual errors cost Chelsea in both legs (Adam Davy\/PA)<\/p>\n

Rosenior was unaware of Fernandez\u2019s comments when they were put to him in his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven’t seen that. It’s hard for me to speak on speculation after a game. I need to focus right now on the most important things, which is making sure we have the right result against Everton [this weekend].\u201d<\/p>\n

The result marked a heaviest-ever two-legged defeat for the Blues in Europe and just like in the first leg at the Parc des Princes, it was individual mistakes which were their undoing.<\/p>\n

Mamadou Sarr, brought in for his debut in the competition with Reece James and Malo Gusto ruled out, made a horrible error to gift Kvaratskhelia a goal after six minutes and things only got worse from there.<\/p>\n

Barcola scored a magnificent second, only after Trevoh Chalobah had failed to pick up the France international, before 19-year-old midfielder Mayulu came off the bench to cap the home side\u2019s humiliation.<\/p>\n

It continued a theme from the first leg when goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen\u2019s mistake was the catalyst for the team to ship three late goals, leaving them facing a task that proved too much.<\/p>\n

\u201cSix minutes in and another mistake,\u201d said Rosenior. \u201cIt takes the wind from our sails. The second goal is hit from 25 yards into the top corner.<\/p>\n

\"Fans<\/p>\n

Fans were frustrated after Cole Palmer was substituted off (Adam Davy\/PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you go two goals down so early and five down on aggregate, it\u2019s really difficult. Obviously, we wanted to put up more of a fight than we did. Credit to PSG. Over the two legs they deserve to go through.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a third defeat in seven days following the thumping in the first leg and Saturday\u2019s 1-0 defeat here to Newcastle, with Rosenior\u2019s promising start in west London at risk of turning sour.<\/p>\n

Chelsea are sixth in the Premier League and face a fight to return to the Champions League next season.<\/p>\n

Asked how he would make sure the campaign is kept on track, Rosenior said: \u201cThat\u2019s my job. How I go about that is how we always go about it. We need to be resilient. We need to make sure go to Everton (on Saturday) with organisation, freshness and intensity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be in this competition next season. If we perform as we can, we can get there without the individual mistakes that we\u2019re making.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Paris<\/p>\n

Paris St Germain eased into the quarter-finals after an 8-2 aggregate win (Adam Davy\/PA)<\/p>\n

Cole Palmer and Joao Pedro were taken off in the second half with the tie clearly long out of Chelsea\u2019s reach, but it did not stop a furious reaction from home fans at what appeared to be a the waving of a white flag.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I don\u2019t manage their minutes their likelihood of getting injured is increased very highly,\u201d said Rosenior.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to make really difficult decisions that at the time probably don\u2019t look great to be honest. You never want to take off your best players when you\u2019re five goals down. But I want to make the best decisions in the long term as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

PSG boss Luis Enrique reflected that the tie was essentially won after the first leg.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, I\u2019m proud because I didn\u2019t expect that kind of result,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we think about the first match, the first 80 minutes we draw the match, then the last 10 minutes we overcame them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blues\u2019 vice-captain was speaking after Chelsea\u2019s 3-0 thrashing by PSG at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday night, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15013,6898,61,60,28774,112],"class_list":["post-352334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-champions-league","tag-chelsea","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-psg","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}