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If anyone was remotely surprised by Chelsea's results in the previous two games, then they clearly haven't been watching the club for the past four years.

Thomas Tuchel's squad had, and still have, their Champions League qualification fate in their hands after beating West Ham with a dramatic Christian Pulisic winner last Sunday. Chelsea then knew that six points in their next two against out of form opposition would all but secure that spot, needing only one point from their remaining four games.

But the almost comical levels of profligacy at Old Trafford, followed by an immature and mistake-ridden trip to Goodison Park, has placed more pressure onto a squad who, to be blunt, already looks like they are on the beach.

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Old Trafford and Goodison represented two opportunities to end recent hoodoos at awkward grounds. Chelsea had not won at United since 2013 and Goodison since 2017. Some of the Blues' worst displays have come at those venues, signals of the team's most significant issues. The collapse on the opening day of the 2019/20 season to United, the 1-0 loss to Everton in December 2020, triggered the beginning of the end of Frank Lampard's reign.

This, for Tuchel, could have showcased a different edge to his Chelsea team, that the failings of the past were just going to be that, the past. But instead, as Todd Boehly