Chelsea's Callum Hudson-Odoi has admitted the players let themselves down during their disappointing 3-1 loss to Arsenal on Saturday.
Before the game Mikel Arteta's side had gone seven Premier League games without a win, but Chelsea went 3-0 down before a late consolation from Tammy Abraham.
Blues boss Frank Lampard blasted his side as 'lazy' after their poor performance, who was angry with the way his side approached the game at the Emirates.
And winger Hudson-Odoi, who set up Abraham's goal, agreed with Lampard that his side started off on the wrong foot.
He said after the game: 'It feels like we let ourselves down. We know we can do much better. We should have put the same energy we had in the second half into the first half as well - we should have had the same attitude from the get-go.
'We started too slow, we all know that. We knew from the start it was going to be a difficult game no matter what. They're Arsenal, they're a good team.
'No matter where we are in the league we're going to keep pushing until we get to number one and no matter what the game is, we're Chelsea, we want to give our best every game no matter what.
'We don't like losing. That's the Chelsea mentality, we always want to win. So when we lose or make a couple of mistakes, we're all disappointed with ourselves. When we win we're always happy, when we lose we're disappointed, so we want to get back to winning ways and stay happy.'
Goals from Alexandre Lacazette, Granit Xhaka and Bukayo Saka had the game wrapped up at 3-0 after 56 minutes.
Chelsea grew into the game but Jorginho had a penalty saved by Bernd Leno and Abraham's goal came too late to trouble Arsenal, who won their first domestic game since November 1.
Lampard's side now find themselves down in seventh, six points off league leaders Liverpool, who have played one game fewer.
Next up Chelsea host Aston Villa on Monday 28, while Arsenal travel to Brighton the following day.
Dizcdenz
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Agreed, that missed Mount place kick, came back to haunt us. As for that Jorginho circus jumping penalty miss, the less I talk about it the better,bcos I just can't understand why Jorginho is still a Chelsea player, let alone his coming in, yesterday, cos the guy is naturally soft and can hardly run offensively or even defensively, let alone disposses an opponent the ball. With Jorginho playing, our Chelsea is always a player, less. Why our Coach seems to like Jorginho, just beats me. We has Azpiliqueta, Rudiger that could have come in and shifted James into the middle field, instead of bringing in Jorginho, who cost us an opportunity of scoring that penalty with his meek short, after his predictable useless jumping. That jumping is OK, if you take a HARD SHOT, like Fernandez does, for ManU.
bamkmnry
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Don't blame our players for the lost at Arsenal that is ridiculous the only one to blame here is Lampard completely nonsense. why did he risk Chilwell n James ,kante was having a nightmare game yet he leave him and take off kovacic really a top manager wouldn't do something silly like . what angers me the Werner on the Left wing pulisic right wing are you Fucken high or stupid bench Werner play odoi . I'm done backing Frank whatever happens at Aston Villa win or loose don't care . Roman do what's best for our club Lampard is not the men to take chelsea at another I don't see it . if you guys disagree fine . I will leave you with this question. what is our identity style of play ? me personally I don't know. all i see it's just crosses the whole Fucken game this craap