That was… painful.
Chelsea have just lost 3-2 to West Ham, and it was a game that stung on so many levels.
Not only should we have won, we lost because we gave away some truly awful and avoidable goals.
What really adds to the sickening feeling is the way that it feels like it’s put us out of the title race. After sloppy draws against Man U and Burnley, this one is even more costly.
It continues a bad habit we have of falling apart once things get cold. We thought this team was different, but it seems like our old mistakes are creeping back in.
All we can do now is hope that our rivals slip up. Both Man City and Liverpool look like total machines at the moment, and we can’t see them letting two leads slip as we just did.
“Winter is here,” as one sad Blue put it.
You can see a selection of their reactions in the Tweets embedded here:
Min you I’m upset because we squeaked past Watford and then decided to nap through the second half of a London Derby. Title race is still on but it sure as hell got even harder than it already was going to be
— Andres (@BOP_Andres) December 4, 2021
Enough said #CFC #WHUCHE pic.twitter.com/qwKCXWgA7Z
— Travis (@Travtical) December 4, 2021
only have ourselves to blame
come back stronger
— Dávid Pásztor (@D_Peezy) December 4, 2021
Petition for Chelsea to never play a 12.30 KO ever again
— Tess Derry (@tessderry1) December 4, 2021
Enjoyable game for the neutral I’m sure🙈🙈couple of freak goals/mistakes and a couple of great finishes…Mount, Bowen, Rice and Loftus Cheek’s performances 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
— Jody Morris (@JodyMorris) December 4, 2021
Lukaku looked off base for sure, but I would also love to see Lukaku not playing like a target man once he’s match fit 🙃
— Andres (@BOP_Andres) December 4, 2021
Over 60% of Premier League games left to play, with five trophies still to fight for…
We will be back. 💙 pic.twitter.com/VFsQZvF4Py
— LDN (@LDNFootbalI) December 4, 2021
48 – Chelsea’s loss to West Ham was their first Premier League defeat after leading at half-time since December 2018 against Wolves under Maurizio Sarri – they had been unbeaten in 48 league games when ahead at HT before today (W40 D8). Slip. pic.twitter.com/uQFP4Ix4gU
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 4, 2021
lmaooo
— amadí (@amadoit__) December 4, 2021
We were leading twice as well…
— Chelsea Extra 🏆 (@CFCExtra) December 4, 2021
Edouard Mendy. Wow.
— Uber Chelsea FC (@UberChelseaFC_) December 4, 2021
— BlueTweetsFC™ (@BlueTweetsFC) December 4, 2021
This is a brilliant win for West Ham though, they've defended well and did what they had to do to grind out the result.
— BlueTweetsFC™ (@BlueTweetsFC) December 4, 2021
Chelsea lose to West Ham.
I’m confused. I’m upset. I’m tired.
— Alex Goldberg (@AlexGoldberg_) December 4, 2021
Édouard Mendy’s worst game in a Chelsea shirt today, and he’ll know that.
He’s a world class goalkeeper – he’ll be back, get behind him. pic.twitter.com/t9YrtoIAiY
— LDN (@LDNFootbalI) December 4, 2021
One regular winter for Chelsea. That's all I ask for. Will never happen.
— Adam Newson (@AdamNewson) December 4, 2021
Not our day. pic.twitter.com/xbtLbWitCq
— Talk Chelsea (@talkchelsea) December 4, 2021
Why did you bench Timo Werner oga