{"id":1163854,"date":"2026-02-23T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163854"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:30:00","slug":"chelsea-are-not-a-nasty-team-blues-inexperience-called-into-question-by-pundit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/chelsea-are-not-a-nasty-team-blues-inexperience-called-into-question-by-pundit\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea are not &#8220;a nasty team&#8221; &#8211; Blues &#8220;inexperience&#8221; called into question by pundit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are not \u201ca nasty team\u201d \u2013 Blues \u201cinexperience\u201d called into question by pundit<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s \u2018inexperience\u2019 has once again been called into question this weekend after they dropped more points against Burnley.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second relegation battling team that Chelsea had dropped points to in a row now, drawing 2-2 with Leeds United in their last league game, then <a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2026\/02\/match-report-burnley-draw-chelsea-concede-1-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">drawing 1-1 against Burnley<\/a> on Saturday afternoon. In both games, Chelsea threw away a lead.<\/p>\n<h2>Join our exclusive Chelsea community where we put out our own insider transfer news and other info!<\/h2>\n<p>The game couldn\u2019t have started much better for Chelsea. After just 4 minutes, a rapid move saw Moises Caicedo pick out Pedro Neto\u2019s clever run with a superb through ball.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese winger whipped a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2026\/02\/moises-caicedo-scores-superb\/\">low cross in for the in form Joao Pedro<\/a>, who bundled the ball in. The crowd were roaring, and everyone expected a comfortable win with some nice football along the way. But it didn\u2019t work out that way.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea threw it away late on<\/h2>\n<p>Andrey Santos looks disappointed. (Photo by Jasper Wax\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Burnley started to find their feet in the game and after Wesley Fofana got sent off around 70 minutes for his second yellow card offence, it looked inevitable that the away side would find the equaliser \u2013 which they did in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s lack of discipline has been spoken about a lot, and pundit Owen Hargreaves believes he has a theory on why it\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<h2>Hargreaves puts it down to inexperience<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChelsTransfer\/status\/2025576119731143036?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">Hargreaves said<\/a>: \u201cYou know what, Chelsea are not even a nasty team, some teams back in the day were properly nasty, got nasty red cards, they\u2019re all quite silly red cards the ones they have got.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s inexperience. Again, it goes back to recruitment. They spent so much money on this squad, they\u2019ve got some brilliant attacking players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe centre-back position and the goalkeeper they need to address, you need experience in there. You think they had Thiago Silva, one of the best and they just let him go for free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got all these talented young players, but I don\u2019t think having just young players in the centre-back position is the right decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/chelsea-not-nasty-team-blues-073000426.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/chelsea-not-nasty-team-blues-073000426.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are not \u201ca nasty team\u201d \u2013 Blues \u201cinexperience\u201d called into question by pundit Chelsea\u2019s \u2018inexperience\u2019 has once again been called into question this weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1163855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}