Gary
Cahill has called his Chelsea team-mates to show more pride in their
remaining matches following Saturday’s 3-0 defeat to Manchester City.
The
Saturday Night Football clash saw Chelsea suffer their worst
league defeat at Stamford Bridge in five-and-a-half years, as Manchester
City completed a league double over the Blues for the first time since the
2009/10 season.
Chelsea's disastrous campaign sees the Blues languishing in 10th place in
the table but Cahill wants the players to regroup and try and finish the
season on a high.
"We should have more pride in ourselves to go out and give a performance and
at least run around and try to get close to people," he said.
"We need to maybe speak next week as a group because we have some great
players and some good lads.
"We have nothing to play for but I don't care how you play, you run around
and if you make mistakes you make mistakes and you go again. I thought we
lacked that in this game."
Sergio Aguero scored a hat-trick for the visitors as City improved their
chances of securing a top-four finish after a lacklustre Premier League
campaign.
Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was sent off after bringing down Fernandinho to
allow Aguero to steer home a penalty late on to complete his hat-trick.
But it was City's first two goals which illustrated a gulf in class between
the sides, leaving Cahill to question the desire of the Chelsea team.
"It is unbelievably disappointing," Cahill told Chelsea's official website.
"I thought we got what we deserved. At times in that game we were rubbish
and lacked the desire to get a result and they had it, and they punished us
for it.
"We seemed to have a few corners for us and the next minute they were down
our end having a dangerous attack at goal.
"Maybe it was a lack of concentration from us. We started the game okay, we
had a few chances and put a bit of pressure on and got some corners but
overall, we can play a hell of a lot better than that."
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