Graham Potter: Chelsea boss under pressure but has support of at least one of club's owner

Graham Potter is under pressure at Chelsea but he nonetheless has the support of at least one of the club’s house owners.

Chelsea have received simply as soon as of their final 11 matches in all competitions – scoring 4 targets in that point – whereas they’ve did not file a victory in any away match since October 16.

Defeat at Tottenham on Sunday elevated the scrutiny on Potter’s place at Stamford Bridge, but the sensation is that altering managers now could be a step backwards, not forwards, for the Blues, particularly as a result of of the funding made in new gamers and constructing a brand new construction across the head coach.

Potter left Brighton to hitch Chelsea final September, signing a five-year deal.

He has received simply 9 of his 26 video games in cost and the 2-0 defeat at Tottenham leaves Chelsea tenth within the Premier League desk and 14 factors behind fourth-placed Spurs.

They had been additionally crushed 1-0 within the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie with Borussia Dortmund, having already been knocked out at the third spherical stage of each the FA Cup and Carabao Cup by Manchester City.

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‘I may have performed for Chelsea vs Spurs – it was so sluggish!’

Sky Sports’ Paul Merson:

“It’s the worst I’ve seen at Chelsea in over 20 years. The fans are fuming now. I was at the game against Tottenham on Sunday and that’s the most hostile I’ve ever heard it among the Chelsea support.

“I feel Graham Potter will get the following two video games, Leeds and Dortmund within the Champions League. It would not really matter what occurs within the Leeds match, all of it comes all the way down to the Dortmund recreation.

“It’s the only competition Chelsea can win, they’re out of the FA Cup and won’t get in the top four, and there’s no way they can go into a Champions League game without a manager, it’s pointless. People may say it won’t be any worse, but it won’t be any better. It’s a massive week.

“At Tottenham, they did not appear to be scoring a aim in a 12 months of Sundays. Mykhailo Mudryk is an £88m signing sitting on the bench, it tells you he isn’t Potter’s participant. If he was his participant and he’d have gone to the board and stated he wanted him, and must play him.

“When Chelsea lost 1-0 at Dortmund, I thought they’d definitely beat them in the second leg. Since then, I don’t see how they will score two goals in a match.

“They by no means regarded like scoring at Spurs. I may have performed for Chelsea on Sunday after they had the ball as a result of it was so sluggish – and I’m 54! I am unable to run round anymore but I can cross the ball, and I may have performed within the workforce. It was sluggish, sideways, backwards, I can play like that at my age.

“Chelsea’s biggest game is Tottenham and it was lacklustre. They could still be playing now and they wouldn’t have scored. I can’t remember getting excited once in the game by them.

“Chelsea beat Tottenham 4 out of 4 occasions final season, twice within the cups, twice within the league and that was after they had Heung-Min Son taking part in on hearth. Now he is coming off the bench they usually nonetheless cannot get a outcome.

“I like Potter, they should give him a chance, but one goal in six games, one win in 11, two wins in 16. That is absolutely a no-go. It’s extraordinary.”