Antonio Conte could only watch from the manager’s box as his Chelsea team where ripped apart Eddie How’s Bournemouth side in the second with the Chelsea boss feeling the heat already at the dugout. Bournemouth won chelsea 3-0, Antonio Conte have been faced with serious speculation of being the 11 manager to be fired in the Abrahimovic era with serious face-off between the club management and the Italian over player transfers. The Italian manager will be lucky to hurdle this with intense pressure mounting on him.
Antonio Conte coming into this game made several circumstantial changes from the team that won Stoke on Sunday as the manager made decision on who strikes in the game. Batshuayi left earlier in the day on a loan move to Dortmund. The unavailability of Morata due to injury and the unavailability of new signing Olivier Giroud in the match day squad forced Conte to deploy Eden Hazard in the position. Ross Barkley was handed his first start for the Blues. The game kick off in a dull start with neither team able to dominate the game. The host could not threaten in the first half due to lack of a recognized striker as Hazard, Pedro and Barkley toiled which forced the match to be a stalemate at the interval. Conte lost his favored central defender Christensen to Injury before the half hour mark. The Host where stunned in the second half as the conceded 3 goals in a 16 minute interval. Wilson scoring in the 51 minute a tactical error Bakayoko gifted Bournemouth the chance. Stanilas made it two in the 64 minute after wonderful play with Wilson. Nathan Ake made it three in the 67 minute as he scored on his return to the bridge. Chelsea continued to chase the game but were unable to stop Bournemouth from taking all Points.
The results means the Blues where unable to overtake Manchester united who lost to Tottenham at the Wembley, Instead the blues slip to fourth place due to their inferior goal difference to Liverpool.