Gary Neville has pointed out four Chelsea players for criticism for their decisions during the 3-1 defeat of the Blues for Manchester City.
The difficult streak of the team's shape continued on Sunday while confronting the defenders of the Premier League, putting the hopes of their qualification of the Champions League in doubt when they slid of the first five.
After an impressive start of the season that saw the contestants of the brand's title, the men of Enzo Maresca have won only once in their last seven games and were the second best in Etihad too.
After taking the front from the beginning through Noni Madueke, Josko Gvardiol, Erling Haaland and Phil Foden scored to give City, who are beginning to hit the form again, the victory.
When Madueke scored, it seemed that visitors could have put the game out of view with the new city signing Abdukodir Khusanov fighting at the return center. That, however, did not happen, and the game was lost.
Neville, speaking in The Podcast Gary NevilleHe criticized Chelsea for his efforts at the beginning of the game, and suggested that four players in particular should have led the revolt in the initial stages.
Gary Neville has signed four Chelsea players for not adapting to Manchester City
Questioned why Enzo Fernández (in the photo) did not trigger a change in the approach
The expert said that he would have 'smelled' the problem and adapted to the state of the game
“The reason I am going to be hard with Chelsea is that I think there is a lot of talent in that field and they have had a very good season,” he began. 'They are ahead of the teams in terms of talent, such as Newcastle, Nottingham Forest, Bournemouth.
'I never thought they could win the league this year, so I don't hope they win every game, but it was frustrated on two fronts. One, and I felt like that when I said bottle works of one billion pounds, I felt they showed something, in the first 10 minutes of this game they showed something.
'They could have climbed 2-0, but I mentioned the players scheduled as robots. If you admit, write down, if you can see that another team is vulnerable or feels a nervousness on the ground, you should be able to adapt.
'There is some experience out there. (Moises) Caicedo, (Enzo) Fernández that I am seeing in particular and even Cole Pale now, what he has done in the last 18 months. James Reece. I am looking at those four in particular thinking: “You should have felt that at that time of the game, the child in the right center, (meteus) nunes on the right, the center of the field that really cannot run, you had to go for the jugular “.
'I said at that time, and they lost a real opportunity because they were scheduled before the game to play in a certain way. They could not change to go to full pressure. The game had changed. I feel that I would have smelled that in United if it were there.
'You had to keep attacking the left side. They leave them out of the hook. That is due to a mentality.
The opening goal of the game occurred through a Khusanov error, which had tried to return to Ederson before Nicolas Jackson pounced for Tee Madueke.
Then he was reserved only a few minutes later by a foul on Palmer, and City fought with Capitulated against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League just a few days before.
However, they recovered to continue their return to the form in the Premier League and move to fourth place at the table.
Moises Caicedo, who has been impressive so far this season, was called in doubt
The new firm of the city, Abdukodir Khusanov, was fighting early after having given the starter
Enzo Maresca, meanwhile, has suggested that No. 1, goalkeeper Robert Sánchez could be retired
Haaland's goal, meanwhile, came from Robert Sánchez's last mistake, with the Blues goalkeeper running from his goal before being launched from the distance by the striker.
It was his fifth mistake that led to a goal this season, most of any Premier League player, and Blues Chief, Enzo Maresca, hinted at the game that the goalkeeper could soon change.
“We trust Robert safely, but at the same time he is aware that he is making mistakes,” said Maresca.
“We continue to trust Robert, but we have a whole week, we see the reaction and decide for the next games.”