Former Manchester City goalkeeper, Shay Given, has said that west London giants, Chelsea do not have a chance of winning the Champions League this season.
He stated this following the Blues’ 2-2 draw with Qarabag on Wednesday night.
Estevao Willian put the visitors in front in the first half in Baku but the home side hit back and were 2-1 up before half time.
Chelsea boss, Enzo Maresca, brought on Alejandro Garnacho, Liam Delap and Enzo Fernandez as they sought an equaliser.
It was the former Manchester United man, Garnacho who levelled the score in the 53rd minute.
The draw against Qarabag means that Maresca’s team have taken just seven points from four Champions League games so far.
Given said on TNT Sports, “I just felt Chelsea played within themselves, played with arrogance, or they turned up tonight and [thought] it would be an easy win for them.
“But at the same time, the defending… Qarabag could have grabbed a late winner as well, by the way. It will be a worry from a Chelsea point of view how open they were and how easy they were to cut through at times.
“Other teams will be looking at Chelsea – have they got a chance of winning this competition? I would say on tonight’s performance probably not.
“Obviously off the back of the summer, they were brilliant at the Club World Cup, I feel like they’ve come off that a bit, they’ve dipped a bit.
“It worries me at the back, the defensive side of things. Caicedo came on earlier in the game, he [Maresca] probably wanted to rest him because he’s covered so much ground this season.”
