{"id":410882,"date":"2026-04-22T00:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410882\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:24:07","slug":"rosenior-roasts-his-chelsea-players-after-listless-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410882\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosenior roasts his Chelsea players after listless loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Rosenior questioned the professionalism of Chelsea&#8217;s players as he reflected on the &#8220;most difficult night&#8221; of his career following an &#8220;indefensible&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0421\/1569375-brighton-cruise-to-victory-over-toothless-chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3-0<\/a> thrashing at Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>Blues fans turned on head coach Rosenior at the Amex Stadium, where the club\u2019s slim hopes of Champions League qualification were dented by a fifth successive Premier League loss without scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Rampant Albion leapfrogged Chelsea into sixth place, thanks to goals from Ferdi Kadioglu, Jack Hinshelwood and substitute Danny Welbeck.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenior was the subject of X-rated chants from the disgruntled away end during the second half of a toothless display in which his team failed to register an attempt on target.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether the performance was the worst of his tenure, the former Strasbourg boss told Sky Sports: &#8220;By far. It was unacceptable in every aspect of the game, unacceptable in our attitude.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I keep coming out and defending the players. That\u2019s indefensible, that performance tonight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The manner of the goals we conceded, the amount of duels that we lost, the lack of intensity in the team. Something needs to change drastically right now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The professionalism wasn\u2019t there. It\u2019s a really difficult night. The most difficult night not even just here, so far, at this magnificent football club, but in my career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the things I witnessed today, I never want to see again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are in danger of missing out on European football altogether after suffering five consecutive league defeats without scoring for the first time since 1912.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues remain seven points adrift of fifth-placed Liverpool, having now played a game more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to look in the mirror; I need to look in the mirror,&#8221; continued Rosenior, who was without attacking trio Cole Palmer, Estevao and Joao Pedro due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I can\u2019t keep coming out here and defending some of the things we\u2019re seeing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The general attitude, spirit, determination was lacking apart from maybe three or four of the 11.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is nowhere near enough for this club. I can\u2019t come out and lie. I\u2019ll tell the truth. That was an unacceptable performance in every area.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Rosenior questioned the professionalism of Chelsea&#8217;s players as he reflected on the &#8220;most difficult night&#8221; of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-410882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410882","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=410882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}