With a goal deficit, the Chelsea players welcome the second leg of the League Cup semi-final against Middlesbrough at their stadium. Cole Palmer missed colossal chances, but the best player of the London Blues this season shares the role of the ‘flop of the match’ with Moises Caicedo. The midfielder, who was paid 116,000,000 euros to Brighton, was the one responsible for the only goal in the match, when he simply stopped running after Hayden Hackney, which he took advantage of to score the goal.In disbelief, former goal scorer Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink commented on the movement of the Chelsea midfielder in the 37th minute.”If you’re determined and motivated, then you don’t lose a player in a one-on-one situation. And this one was like that. You just had to keep running with him and make sure you didn’t lose him. And then, at the crucial moment, you give him a little push, just enough that he can’t catch the ball well. But he stopped,” commented the former striker of, among others, Chelsea and Middlesbrough, as well as the Dutch national team.##NAJAVA_MECA_7789070##Hasselbaink also praised the reaction of 21-year-old Hackney and stated that Djordje Petrovic could not have intervened better in that situation.”The finish was phenomenal, he caught the ball perfectly with his weaker leg. He opened his body and then sent the ball in such a way so that the goalkeeper had no chance to stop it.”Despite the conceded goal, the Serbian goalkeeper is among the best-rated Chelsea players. He is among the few that got a 6/10 rating. Raheem Sterling and Conor Gallagher, at moments even Malo Gusto, earned a passing grade according to English reporters, while Palmer and Caicedo received miserable fours from some journalists. For the Englishman, it was explained with a statement that this was not his night and that out of the three goal chances – if it were any other day, he would probably have converted at least two, while the Ecuadorian’s poor reaction at the goal and generally poor form since coming to Chelsea stand out.The Blues’ fans were much harsher in their comments on social media, and one is especially cruelly witty.”That’s how good Alexis MacAllister is – he made people think Caicedo is worth €116,000,000″.These guys! Boro grab a shocking win against the ever-unconvincing BluesThe visiting fans expressed their displeasure in the stands of the Riverside, although Mauricio Pochettino claims that their anger after the game was directed at the home supporters, not the London team’s players.Thiago Silva, Armando Broja, Alfie Gilchrist and Levi Colvill are the few who went in front of the visiting sector, and the experienced Brazilian exchanged a few words with the Chelsea fans.”Don’t be confused, because our fans reacted to the behavior of the Middlesbrough supporters. They were fantastic towards us. Thiago and some other players went to them to calm them down because I think there was a problem between the fans of the two clubs. Be careful what you do publish in the media, don’t confuse our fans,” said Pochettino at the press conference, congratulating Middlesbrough on the victory and stating that his team naively conceded a goal, and then were insufficiently concentrated in the end to convert some of the many chances created.Embarrassing from the whole lot nome of them apart from Silva plays for the badge. pic.twitter.com/Q3KtSKNtf5— Fathz (@UncleFathz216) January 9, 2024 Here’s the video I took. Silva was clearly pissed but so are chelsea fans and rightly so. pic.twitter.com/igcYVdTZT3— marl karx (@thesnorky) January 9, 2024
