Glenn Hoddle claims £70m Chelsea star ‘is not up to standard’ after Everton defeat

Glenn Hoddle believes Wesley Fofana was ‘not up to Chelsea’s standard’ in their 3-0 defeat to Everton on Saturday.

Two goals from Beto and a brilliant strike from Iliman Ndiaye sealed a deserved win for Everton, leaving Chelsea with four consecutive losses in all competitions.

Fofana was caught out for both of Beto’s goals at the Hill Dickinson Stadium and Hoddle says Chelsea’s £70 million signing ‘has got to really look at himself’.

‘It’s not by chance, we analysed it at half time, Fofana in the first couple of minutes gave the ball away and then he goes past the ball and Everton should really have scored then,’ Hoddle told Premier League Productions.

‘So he’s set his tone in his game, defensively, really poorly. That’s not a standard you can have if you’re a Chelsea player.

‘He’s got to really look at himself and his overall performance because that’s the sort of thing that makes you hesitate.

‘If you’re not in sync, if you’re not defending correctly from the first minute, it sets a pattern for the rest of the game and that’s how he played.’

Hoddle also believes Liam Rosenior’s decision not to play the same centre-back pairing on a consistent basis has disrupted Chelsea.

‘Liam Rosenior has changed the back two or the back three and it’s not through injury,’ Hoddle said.

‘I always think if you’re got a solid two centre-backs, or a back three, if they play consistently together you become a unit, you become a unit within the team unit, and you become so tight, trust each other, play off each other, and you get instincts of when someone will go and defend, when someone will cover.

‘That’s not happening with Chelsea, they’re changing so many times, you don’t get that continuity at all and there’s not that feeling.

‘They feel fragile, they look fragile. They certainly started today very fragile defensively.

‘I think it’s time for Chelsea not to look outwards, to look within themselves and say these performances are nowhere near good enough.

‘I saw them, I covered the game in Paris Saint-Germain, they were brilliant for 60 mins and they were going toe to toe with of the best teams in Europe, and then suddenly it just fell apart, a little bit how they started today.

‘They have these moments and they haven’t got that consistency, they haven’t got that experience, they missed Reece James in there today, pulling people about and saying, ‘that’s not good enough’. They’re the sort of things, they need a player, they haven’t got that experience there for somebody to dig them out whilst they’re on the pitch when it’s needed.

‘That’s why you’re seeing this inconsistency. They’ve got to look within themselves to improve the performances and then get the results.’

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