Selfish! Two Chelsea star called out after defeat to Manchester City

Two Chelsea players have been called out for their action as the London club continue to struggle for consistency, and risk missing out of Champions League football next season.

Chelsea suffered a 3-0 defeat to Manchester City on Sunday afternoon with goals from Nico O’Reilly, Marc Guehi and Jeremy Doku giving Pep Guardiola’s side a comfortable win.

While the victory boost City’s title chances, it damages Chelsea’s Champions League qualification hopes.

Chelsea played the game without Enzo Fernandez as he continues to serve his suspension for sparking rumors of a potential departure in the summer.

Speaking after the game, Gary Neville hit out at Enzo Fernandez and Marc Cucurella – who was not suspended by the club despite criticising their recruitment policy.

Neville described the duo as “entirely selfish” and is “not helping” Chelsea boss Liam Rosenior.

Enzo Fernandez and Marc Cucurella have been criticized for their recent statement. (Photo by Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images)

Neville told Sky Sports: “It’s a struggle and you add to that the ill-discipline of Enzo Fernandez and Cucurella who have been speaking up in the last few weeks.

“As a football player in a dressing room what do the rest of their teammates think.

“When you speak like they have, that’s entirely selfish. It’s entirely selfish. It’s not helping your manager who is young and inexperienced. It’s not helping your teammates. It’s not helping the fans because they’re thinking you’re discontent.”

Neville added: “In a period when you need to knuckle down, you’ve just gone out of the Champions League and been mauled by PSG, which is no embarrassment they’re a good team. You needed everybody to knuckle down and stay in that mode of tightness.

“When you’ve got the two experienced players that they have are demonstrating discontent and saying that the previous manager was good and we liked him and not sure why it changed. I agree there had to be consequences.

“What they’ve done is saying you need to have the camera on you against Manchester City being in the stand with everyone knowing you’ve been ill-disciplined. That can’t be helpful.

“The problem is those players are still going in the dressing room having an influence and if they’ve got a bottom lip down by their shoe and sulking and slagging the club off, I think you’re going to have a difficult end to the season.

“It feels to me now that Chelsea will miss out on Champions League football. I think Chelsea are going to miss out because of what has happened over the last few weeks.”