Bill Clayton

🚨 Bruno Fernandes on the defeat to Chelsea: “People can say what they want about the manager. I’m not interested in that conversation right now. This result is on us. The players. We had chances in the first half. Good chances. The kind you have to take when you’re away from home and the game is still level. We didn’t take them. Amad had opportunities. I had one myself that should have been better. Matheus had a goal ruled out for offside. These are the moments that decide games. And we missed them. Then came the second half. Lisandro picks up a yellow. A few minutes later he gives away a stupid foul in the box. Second yellow. Penalty. Red card. Game over. That is not on the manager. That is on the player. You cannot make decisions like that when the team is already under pressure. You have to be smarter. You have to think about the consequences. And after that, we gave up. I’m not saying we stopped running. But the intensity dropped. The belief dropped. You could see it. Chelsea controlled the rest of the game and we looked like a team that had already accepted the result. Fans are angry. They should be. They travel, they pay, they watch, and they see the same mistakes. Missed chances. Unnecessary fouls. Players making the game harder for themselves. Michael sets the team up. He gives us a plan. He speaks to us during the week and at half-time. But he cannot take the shots for us. He cannot stop a player from committing a foul that leads to a red card. He cannot force us to keep fighting when the game turns against us. That part is on the players. We are in a bad position in the table. Everyone knows that. But we are not going to get out of it by blaming the manager every time we lose. We have to look at ourselves first. Because if we keep missing chances, if we keep making stupid fouls, if we keep switching off when things get difficult, then the result will be the same no matter who is standing in the technical area. And right now, that is the truth.”