Carragher slams three ’embarrassing’ Chelsea stars as Arsenal run riot

Jamie Carragher savaged Chelsea trio Thiago Silva, Wesley Fofana and Cesar Azpilicueta on commentary after Arsenal made it 3-0 against the Blues on Tuesday night. The Gunners scored twice in three minutes to go from 1-0 up to three goals to the good at the Emirates. Martin Odegaard scored a first-half brace before Gabriel Jesus got on the scoresheet.

The defending for Arsenal’s third was comical and Carragher did not hold back while acting as a co-commentator for Sky Sports alongside ex-Arsenal and Chelsea women’s player Karen Carney. He took aim at Silva, Fofana and Azpilicueta who all ended up down on the turf as they sought to stop Jesus scoring.

The Liverpool legend said: “Absolutely superb from Arsenal and absolutely shocking from Chelsea. This club is an absolute mess right at this moment. And, this could get an awful lot worse for Frank Lampard and his staff, and Chelsea supporters.

“Ben White puts that ball in at the far post – left foot – so easy to bring it down, Gabriel Jesus at that back post. It’s embarrassing from Chelsea.

“It’s like five-a-side football. There’s three of them on the six-yard box all sat on their backsides now, as that ball goes in, and that shot, three of them on their backsides in the box, probably sums Chelsea’s season up.

“We can’t keep looking every time Chelsea lose a game at what the owners have done. To think of the success this club have had, since Arsenal last won the title Chelsea have won 19 trophies. They expect the best, they expect standards. This is a million miles away from it.”

Defeat for Chelsea – who came into the match sat 12th in the table and 36 points ahead of Arsenal – in north London would be the club’s sixth in as many games under interim manager Frank Lampard. The current head coach cut a forlorn figure on the touchline as his side crumbled.

Pundit and Chelsea hero Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink, also working for Sky Sports, said at half-time of his old team’s defending for Jesus’ goal: “They have got numbers behind the ball, but it is not enough. Here [Raheem] Sterling let the cross go in from wide, then you need to defend.

“Still, they have got enough people there and they don’t block the ball, and it gets to Jesus. The urgency is not there, it’s too easy from everybody in the back line. Azpilicueta, open up your body then you see this ball coming and you head it away.

“Then it’s a ricochet and Jesus scores, you know? It’s more than that – it is pride, but it’s also determination. I don’t think that they don’t want [to do well], you see there is enough people behind the ball and they’re running back, they want to do the right thing, but there is no urgency. You have to close people down and get close to people.”