Xabi Alonso Lists Eight Things Which Are Going Wrong for Chelsea

LONDON — At the end of the most chastening evening of Xabi Alonso’s brief Chelsea tenure, the Basque boss called for some patience.

“It’s a process,” he warned assembled media after watching his team get ruthlessly dismantled by Brentford on Friday evening. “It takes time for them to feel it and at the moment we are not feeling it fully to compete for the whole game.”