Chelsea were leapfrogged by Brighton into sixth place and must brace themselves for a host of teams below them to follow suit after a torrid night.
Champions League hopes all but over
Mathematically, it is not over, but realistically, the die is now cast — Chelsea’s Champions League pursuit suffered its final, terminal, hammer blow on the south coast.
The manner of the defeat will have been as hard to take for Rosenior and the board members sat in the directors’ box who must now consider his future as anything else.
Chelsea have a mountain to climb if they are to play…
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