Marseille 1-0 Chelsea - Newspaper Reports, Goal Video, Carlo's Reaction
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Newspaper reports
The Guardian, Dominic Fifield: “Chelsea’s conviction continues to wilt. This may have been the least significant of the four defeats suffered in their past eight matches, with the result long since meaningless in the context of qualification, but the sense that this season is veering away from them has been maintained. Confidence has taken another pounding.”
Daily Telegraph, Jason Burt: “Against the Marseillais, the Chelsea malaise continued. In this famous old port they had hoped to find the haven of a victory to re-launch their season, but the Champions League is not a refuge. This team has lost its way, even if they had already surged into the last 16, winning Group F prior to this match.”
The Independent, Mark Fleming: "Roman Abramovich has been preoccupied of late, busy helping out Russia's successful bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Sooner rather than later, however, the ruthless Russian oligarch is going to decide the time has come to act as Chelsea's season limps from one disaster to another."Official Chelsea FC Website: “Chelsea’s poor form continued with a narrow defeat in the south of France on Wednesday evening. A late goal from Marseille forward Brandao proved enough to end our five-game winning streak in the Champions League, and although we progress from Group F in first place, we have claimed victory in just one of our last six matches.”
The goal
Carlo’s reaction
“This was not 100% the performance I wanted. The first half was good for us, defensively we were good… but overall, we can do better. Defensively there was tactical discipline, but in attack we have to do better - we didn’t have many chances and we needed to be better with our final pass and our shooting. We have to improve, obviously, especially with Tottenham, Man Utd and Arsenal coming up. Really, we have lost confidence.”