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Former Manchester United midfielder, Owen Hargreaves, has deed retired astatine Chelsea portion voicing his concerns implicit the Blues’ reliance connected young endowment successful their defence, peculiarly aft the club’s nonaccomplishment to Paris Saint-Germain successful the Champions League.
Hargreaves was reacting to Chelsea’s 3-0 decision to PSG successful the Champions League Round of 16 second-leg necktie connected Tuesday.
He stated that Chelsea’s starting XI, featured “three academy kids” successful the backmost 4 against the reigning European champions.
“Chelsea has excessively galore young players, they request experienced players,” Hargreaves told TNT Sports.
“All these large Chelsea teams person had world-class experienced players – John Terry, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, Makelele, and Essien.
“You can’t person 3 academy kids successful a backmost 4 against the European champions. It is impossible; it is ne'er going to work. 8-2 implicit 2 legs. It is excessively much.”
The likes of Mamadou Sarr (20), Trevoh Chalobah (26), Jorrel Hato (20), and Marc Cucurella (27) started astatine the back-four for Chelsea against PSG.
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