Chelsea flops pressured to delete social media over abuse after Liverpool thrashing

Chelsea duo Moises Caicedo and Enzo Fernandez have each deleted their social media accounts after receiving abuse following the Liverpool defeat.

The Blues have been thrashed 4-1 at Anfield by Liverpool within the Premier League on Wednesday night in one of many lowest nights since Mauricio Pochettino took cost in the summertime. Goals from Diogo Jota and a first Liverpool aim for Conor Bradley had the Reds 2-0 up at half-time, earlier than Dominik Szoboszlai and Luis Diaz scored both facet of Christopher Nkunku’s comfort strike within the second 45.

Defeat for Chelsea meant they remained in tenth place within the desk – now 13 factors behind Tottenham in fifth place and 15 behind Aston Villa in 4th, earlier than the Blues kick a ball at dwelling towards Wolves on Sunday. The abuse was geared toward a number of of the Blues gamers and supervisor on social media, and the backlash has triggered the midfielder companions to seemingly delete their social media presence.

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Following the sport, Chelsea gamers acquired a torrent of disgusting messages, and a look on Twitter exhibits each Caicedo and Fernandez’s web page seems to have been faraway from the app. Both gamers have arrived at Stamford Bridge throughout the final 18 months for value tags north of £100million.

Fernandez, 23, and Caicedo, 22, have each began 17 video games and have come off the bench twice from a potential 22 this season within the Premier League. Chelsea have misplaced two of the three video games they performed within the league with out Fernandez – towards Brentford and Wolves. While the previous Brighton man was additionally absent from the Wolves defeat in December.

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Pochettino beforehand admitted in December that each gamers wanted to enhance if Chelsea have been to show round their poor type this season, after the 2-1 defeat at Manchester United, Pochettino stated: “The relationship between them wants to enhance in fact, between them and individually additionally.

“They are younger, the expectation is very large while you arrive. Caicedo had one season in Brighton and Enzo after three months in Europe, he was in Benfica earlier than arriving to the Premier League. Arriving not in the very best place to carry out fast as a result of they should be a part of the answer.

“They aren’t the cherry of the cake. When you arrive in a workforce that’s in a constructing course of and also you’re younger with not an excessive amount of expertise, even you probably have good high quality and folks can see the membership paid huge cash and just for that it’s essential to carry out, it isn’t like this in soccer. Some individuals suppose on this approach as a result of they do not know about soccer. It’s a course of.”