Carlo plans Blues meeting

Carlo Ancelotti will sit his Chelsea squad down to review the damage of the 3-0 defeat by Sunderland.

Black Cats defeat 'worst' performance of Ancelotti's reign

Carlo Ancelotti will sit his Chelsea squad down to review the damage of the 3-0 defeat by Sunderland upon the players' return from international duty. Chelsea suffered their heaviest defeat at Stamford Bridge in over eight years on Sunday as Sunderland stunned the Premier League champions. The Black Cats were full value for the victory and Ancelotti branded the performance as the worst since he took over as manager 18 months ago. The midweek international friendlies mean the Italian will have to wait to point out where his players went wrong, but he is keen to work out why the Blues performed so poorly.

Bad day

"We have to have a meeting about this on Thursday when they come back from the international break to look at what happened," Ancelotti said. "I think this was the worst performance since I've been here. The performance was poor today, but in football it can happen if you're not at your best and don't play with your best mentality. "All the things were wrong. We didn't play how we wanted to, Sunderland showed fantastic spirit and played better. "We were not able to come back into the game. It was a bad day. We were not able to play our football for 90 minutes, just 15 minutes in the first half."