{"id":660362,"date":"2025-10-11T01:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=660362"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:35:28","slug":"jody-morris-assestment-chelsea-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/10\/11\/jody-morris-assestment-chelsea-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea\u2019s Season Analysed \u2013 Ex-Assistant Coach Gives Honest Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea enjoyed an impressive end to the 2024\/25 season, claiming fourth place and qualification to the Champions League, while winning the Europa Conference League, defeating Real Betis 4-1 in the final. Hopes were high among Chelsea<\/a> fans for the 2025\/26 season, and it\u2019s been an inconsistent start. Former Chelsea assistant manager Jody Morris has spoken to Boxing Social<\/a>, revealing his honest thoughts on the Blues’ start to the 2025\/26 season.<\/p>\n

Ex-Chelsea Assistant Jody Morris Weighs in on Chelsea\u2019s Start to the 2025\/26 Season<\/h2>\n

Morris Assesses Chelsea’s Campaign<\/h3>\n

Speaking to Boxing Social, the former Chelsea assistant was honest on the club’s start to this season and their success at the end of the 2024\/25 campaign:<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, we\u2019ve been poor, to be brutally honest. I think the expectations level rightly went up because of what the manager and the players achieved last season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Conference League is not a sort of renowned competition, but we was in it, so better to win it. We finished in the top four, which the manager and players deserve credit for.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

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Praising the club for their Club World Cup win and appraising the start to this season, Morris said:<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then our performance in the Club World Cup, particularly the final, probably the best performance I\u2019ve seen in a final from a Chelsea team. Was outstanding. So, rightly so, the expectation levels have gone up. And if we\u2019re being honest, I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve played that well at all this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we were really good against Bayern in the first half. Obviously playing against West Ham and doing what we done to them. But this is a team that had to change their manager. They\u2019ve been that bad. i thought we was poor against Palace, not great. Got lucky against Fulham, Brentford, although we was, I think, harshly done by with the goal that I felt was offside as the equalizer, I still didn\u2019t think we played well against Brentford. Lincoln, we was poor.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Morris on Chelsea\u2019s Recent Performances and Victory Against Benfica<\/h3>\n

Assessing Chelsea\u2019s early-season form, Morris said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI was at the Man United game. Obviously, the early sending off, poor. and then the game the other day I was at, where I actually felt we started well. We\u2019re just not managing that. Our in-game decisions and now game management has been really poor. Whether that be the players that are just obviously having off days, it hasn\u2019t been great. But in fairness, at the moment, I think one of the pluses is that we could actually be a lot worse off points wise in the league.<\/p>\n

And, we did get a win the other day, which was obviously very much needed against Benfica.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m disappointed with our quality because, like I said, we had such high hopes after the demolition job we\u2019ve done on PSG, where I thought the manager was outstanding with his tactics. Thought the players carried him out to a T. And we\u2019re all as Chelsea fans, we\u2019re all excited, thinking, right, let\u2019s get a real good start to the season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd at the moment it hasn\u2019t quite happened. So, hopefully, the win against Benfica can be a little bit of a springboard for us,\u201d <\/i>said Morris.<\/p>\n

Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n

IMAGO \/ Inpho Photography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chelsea enjoyed an impressive end to the 2024\/25 season, claiming fourth place and qualification to the Champions League, while winning the Europa Conference League, defeating Real Betis 4-1 in the final. Hopes were high among Chelsea fans for the 2025\/26 season, and it\u2019s been an inconsistent start. Former Chelsea assistant manager Jody Morris has spoken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":649655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,11,3],"tags":[32322,9937,7148,5265],"class_list":["post-660362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-chelsea","category-premier-league","tag-2025-club-world-cup","tag-enzo-maresca","tag-europa-conference-league","tag-jody-morris"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660366,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660362\/revisions\/660366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}