Chelsea The former player, Frank Leboeuf, has harshly criticized the team for their performance in the 2-2 draw with Burnley, expressing his shock at the state of the club.
The Blues seemed headed for an easy win at Stamford Bridge when Lorenz Assignon gave away a penalty and received a second yellow card just before half-time – with manager Vincent Kompany also being sent off – before Cole Palmer successfully used a cheeky Panenka penalty.
However, Josh Cullen quickly equalized after the restart and despite Palmer scoring Chelsea's second goal, Dara O’Shea equalized again late on – Burnley even hit the woodwork in the dying moments.
The result leaves Chelsea closer to the relegation zone than the top four, still in 11th place, and Leboeuf was extremely angry about what he witnessed, criticizing the players and labeling them as 'unprofessional'.
Asked to summarize Chelsea's recent performance and the overall state of the club, Leboeuf said on ESPN: 'I'm really tired of this. You hope that something will change.
‘Alright, the season is already over, but you're playing against Burnley, they're playing 11 against 10, so they're going to win… and then they vanish.
'Nothing happens, you're 1-0 at half-time, you come back and after three minutes you concede a goal, then you try to play a bit and score another goal and then think “Okay, well that's fine” and after that, it's terrible.
‘And in the end, they should have lost that game, 11 against 10. Chelsea football club against – with all due respect – Burnley. That's the end of it, for me, that's the end of it.
‘I want to congratulate the fans for still being able to go to Stamford Bridge to watch that. I mean, come on!
‘That's not fair for the fans, that's not fair for the history of Chelsea football club and for the former players – like myself, and others who are watching and are so shocked by the situation.
‘It's unjust to all those people and I don't know what they [the owners and the players] are doing there.
‘The players have no endurance, no passion, no intelligence, don’t know what to do.
‘If you play 11 against 10, you should dominate that team, yet they let them come back and they almost lost. Come on! That's unprofessional. That's unfair, again, to the people who love the club.’
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