Paul Merson believes Mason Mount ‘got eaten up’ during Chelsea’s defeat to Southampton on Saturday.
Graham Potter’s side remain 10th in the Premier League and 10 points behind fourth-placed Newcastle United after James Ward-Prowse’s excellent free kick in the first half sealed a vital win for Southampton at Stamford Bridge.
After a lacklustre opening 45 minutes, Chelsea created more chances in the second half but were unable to find an equaliser, leaving them with just one win in their last 10 matches in all compeitions.
Mount, meanwhile, was among the Chelsea players who struggled to impress and the England international’s miserable afternoon was ended just after the hour mark as he was replaced by Kai Havertz.
‘I don’t see this stopping, I don’t,’ Merson told Sky Sports when analysing Chelsea’s latest defeat.
‘They’re bought a lorry load of individuals, I’m afraid. They’ve not bought anybody for the team, it’s all dribblers.
‘People were dribbling, there were no phases of the game, it’s only when [Kai] Havertz came on and he started playing with [Joao] Felix and [Raheem] Sterling that there were passages of play.
‘But I don’t see this stopping. I think this is a massive, massive, massive interview now coming up for Graham Potter. Chelsea fans will be fuming, they won’t want to come for this, ‘oh Southampton have got a new manager so that helped them’.
‘If you don’t beat Southampton at home their goalkeeper should be the best player on the pitch and he wasn’t the best player on the pitch.’
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