Terrace Talk: Chelsea - That was a battering and Conte is to blame

Yesterday’s game was a painful watch — the chasm in quality looked as big as the points difference between ourselves and City. And the final Champions League place is slipping further out of reach with every game.

Conte has no-one to blame but himself. Even mid-week he wasn’t talking about us having a chance — he seemed to be more interested in playing the harbinger of doom with his warnings of the possibility of a battering.

If the manager has no belief then the players certainly won’t. Especially when the line-up is the very antithesis of an attacking one. I don’t care about Conte’s pride — his job is to prepare the team and formulate tactics to compete. We didn’t even get close to competing.