Terrace Talk: How do you explain such a total no-show?

I didn’t like the fact that we were such favourites – it made me nervous. With good reason it turned out. Conte’s cup record is also rather poor which worried me.

Terrace Talk: How do you explain such a total no-show?

Let’s get the obvious out of the way, we didn’t turn up. We deserved nothing out of the game and in reality we could have been four-nil down by half-time. And yet, we were only one-nil down to a goal that should never have stood.

I would have thought that was enough for Antonio to get them up for the second half but what we got was more of the same. We got last season’s Matic, an imposter wearing the No. 7 shirt, even Mr Consistency Azpilicueta had a stinker. And don’t even get me started on Victor Moses... if he had a brain he would be dangerous.

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