{"id":7471,"date":"2025-02-12T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/?p=7471"},"modified":"2025-02-12T14:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:07:29","slug":"jamie-carragher-says-two-players-will-stop-chelsea-from-winning-the-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/jamie-carragher-says-two-players-will-stop-chelsea-from-winning-the-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Carragher says two players will stop Chelsea from winning the Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ex-Liverpool and England defender Jamie Carragher (Picture: YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jamie Carragher<\/a> says he ‘never thought’ Chelsea<\/a> would win the Premier League<\/a> as first-choice goalkeeper and striker Robert Sanchez<\/a> and Nicolas Jackson are ‘not at the level’.<\/p>\n

Chelsea briefly threatened to mount a surprising title challenge earlier in the season before falling out of contention over the last two months.<\/p>\n

Sitting 13 points behind leaders Liverpool ahead of the Reds’ game in hand against Everton on Wednesday night<\/a>, Chelsea’s focus is now on Champions League qualification.<\/p>\n

Enzo Maresca’s side are currently fourth – two points ahead of Manchester City – and Carragher believes it will be a ‘disaster’ if Chelsea go another season without top European football.<\/p>\n

Carragher has been ‘really disappointed’ by Chelsea’s recent drop-off but insists he never considered the Blues genuine title contenders due to the presence of Sanchez in goal and Jackson up top.<\/p>\n

Sanchez made more errors leading to goals than any other goalkeeper in the Premier League before being dropped by Maresca recently<\/a>, while Jackson has only scored one goal since the start of December.<\/p>\n

Discussing the state of play at Stamford Bridge, ex-Liverpool and England defender Carragher said on The Overlap US<\/a>: ‘The project looked like it was on track, results were going well.<\/p>\n

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Chelsea have suffered a huge drop-off under Enzo Maresca (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘There was a game where they could have gone top of the league. It looked like it was falling into place and I thought they could make it a three-horse race for the title with Liverpool and Arsenal.<\/p>\n

‘But I\u2019ve got to say I\u2019ve been really disappointed with them. I never thought they could win the league at any stage because of the goalkeeper and the entre forward, they\u2019re not at the level. The centre-backs are not at the level either.<\/p>\n

‘But this drop-off will be a real worry for the people at the top of the club. If they don\u2019t get Champions League football next season, having been there for a couple of years and spent that amount of money, that\u2019s a disaster.<\/p>\n

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Blues striker Nicolas Jackson is struggling in front of goal (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘They went out of the Carabao Cup really early, now they\u2019re out of the FA Cup.<\/p>\n

‘You have to remember Chelsea have been a winning machine for about 20 years. They\u2019ve not gone two or three years without a trophy and the supporters aren\u2019t used to it.<\/p>\n

‘I think real questions will be asked of the hierarchy if they don\u2019t get Champions League football because you can\u2019t really accept it.’<\/p>\n

As Carragher said, Chelsea were recently knocked out of the FA Cup<\/a>, losing 2-1 to Brighton after taking an early lead. <\/p>\n

Chelsea return to Premier League action against the same opposition on Friday night<\/a> as they look to consolidate a place in the top-four.<\/p>\n

\u00a332m signing Jackson missed the FA Cup clash through injury but is expected to return on Friday against a Brighton team hoping to climb up the Premier League table.<\/p>\n

For more stories like this,\u00a0check our sport page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Ex-Liverpool and England defender Jamie Carragher (Picture: YouTube) Jamie Carragher says he ‘never thought’ Chelsea would win the Premier League as first-choice goalkeeper and striker Robert Sanchez and Nicolas Jackson are ‘not at the level’. Chelsea briefly threatened to mount a surprising title challenge earlier in the season before falling out of contention over the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7477,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions\/7477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}