“A very very average players” – Karen Carney slams two Chelsea players that ruin Chelsea game against Madrid
The Blues suffered a 3-1 heavy defeat at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night against Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter final first leg.
However, following the defeat, Former Chelsea midfielder Karen Carney has revealed her disappointment at the performance of the Chelsea team.
Karim Benzema secured a massive victory for the away side with A hat-trick, while former Blue Thibaut Courtois was in fine form in goal for the Los Blancos.
Carney hailed the performance of Benzema and Courtois, but was disappointed with the performance of their Chelsea counterpart Edouard Mendy and Romelu Lukaku and also labeled them as an average players.
Carney said, while speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Football Daily: “We spoke about credit to Brentford and I thought it was going to be a one-off blip.
“I thought we had seen Chelsea be poor off the back of an international break and I thought they’d get it sorted and be defensively more astute, stronger and more compact. But it was anything but that.
“The gaps were too big and the movement, fluidity, the rotation, Madrid pulled Chelsea apart and I haven’t really seen that in a while.
“They made what is usually a very strong defensive unit at Chelsea look very average at times and that was a credit to their front line.
“There was big talk before the start of the game about Thibaut Courtois and Karim Benzema for Real Madrid. You look at the Chelsea goalkeeper and Romelu Lukaku that came on and the difference with both of them.
“They always say you need your big players in these moments and both teams were just at very different stages.
“It wasn’t all on those two and I’m not purposefully digging them out, Real Madrid were far superior, especially in the first half.
“You’ve got to defend better, put in more tackles in midfield and pressing. It’s not just on Lukaku
“There is a little bit that hasn’t been quite right and of course there are a lot of issues and they have done well to get through what has been happening, but they had to defend better and they didn’t.”