Gary Cahill said Chelsea’s players must take accountability for the club’s miserable run after defeat by Brighton on Tuesday night left them without a win or a goal in five Premier League matches - a feat they have repeated for the first time since 1912.
A turgid 3-0 defeat on the south coast, in which Chelsea produced their worst performance of Liam Rosenior’s brief tenure, saw the Blues slip to seventh in the Premier League table, with some six clubs now poised to leapfrog them.