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Tashan Deniran-Alleyne

Chelsea news: Reaction to Man United loss, three players who could leave, Azpilicueta's promise

The Frank Lampard era at Chelsea is firmly underway.

But it's off to a rotten start as the Blues were hammered 4-0 by Manchester United on Sunday afternoon in their 2019/2020 Premier League opener and face Liverpool in the UEFA Super Cup tomorrow night.

With that said, here's the news emerging from Stamford Bridge over the last 24 hours.

Fall out from Man United loss

As expected, there's been a massive reaction to the Blues' heavy defeat at Old Trafford.

Some good, some not so good.

Check out some of football.london's analysis from the game

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Azpilicueta comes out fighting

Azpilicueta was heavily criticised for his role in Man United's three second half goals and he's opened up on what went wrong for his side as well as issuing a defiant message.

"We’re obviously very disappointed with the result because we controlled the game, especially in the first-half, and created a lot of chances but we couldn’t score, he said.

"It’s a tough scoreline to take but we weren’t clinical in the boxes and after we conceded two goals in two minutes, things were more difficult for us.

"From that point, we were more open and gave them more spaces, they got more confidence and at the end we got a tough result.

"We deserved more but it is what it is and we have to move on."

Lampard: 'A harsh lesson for my young team today'

Chelsea transfer news

There could be some exits from Stamford Bridge in the coming weeks.

Whilst the transfer window for Premier League clubs is closed in terms of incomings, they can still sell to clubs across Europe as the window in some countries remains open until early next month.

Who could be saying their goodbyes very soon? (hint, Tiemoue Bakayoko is a possibility).

Tiemoue Bakayoko during the game in Yokohama (Masashi Hara/Getty Images)

Football.london takes a look, click here for the full story.

Injury boost

Chelsea have been handed a huge boost ahead of their UEFA Super Cup clash with Liverpool.

Reds no.1 Alisson Becker will miss the game through injury.

Speaking to the Liverpool club website, Klopp said: "[It’s] Not too cool. It’s a calf injury which takes him obviously out for a while.

Arsenal's Henrikh Mkhitaryan heads wide as Liverpool's Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson Becker comes out to challenge the midfielder and catches him in mid-air. (IAN KINGTON/AFP/Getty Images)

"I don’t want to make now [an] exact prognosis on when he will be back but it will not be Wednesday for sure, so now then we have to see.

"It takes a while, it takes a couple weeks for sure, and we have to see.

“I saw already like ‘six weeks’ and stuff like this, but Ali was not a lot injured in his career so I would like to wait a little bit to see how he develops in that process now, but he is not in for the next few weeks.”

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