Liam Rosenior said Chelsea’s Estevao was “devastated” and in tears after getting injured during Saturday’s 1-0 home loss to Manchester United. Estevao, just 18, started well but had to come off after only 16 minutes.

It looked like he hurt his hamstring while pushing forward against United. Rosenior put on Alejandro Garnacho to replace him, but Garnacho struggled too, going up against his old team.

After the match, Rosenior talked about Estevao, who’s desperate to make the World Cup squad this summer. “He was devastated; he was crying at half-time,” Rosenior explained.

“It looks like his hamstring. He was running through on goal and pulled it right then.”

Now Estevao’s future, even for Tuesday’s match at Brighton, looks uncertain. Enzo Fernandez, who left late in the game, is also in doubt, but Rosenior sounded more hopeful about him. “I think it was his calf,” he said. “I’m hoping it was just a cramp. We need him for Tuesday.”

Chelsea’s defeat is their fourth straight Premier League loss without finding the net. By the end of the weekend, they could be seven points away from the Champions League spots. United only needed one shot on target; Matheus Cunha scored in the first half, and that was enough.

“It’s so tough,” Rosenior said afterwards. “They had one shot on target when we were down to ten men.

“We just kept coming at them and hit the woodwork four times. I don’t want the players to get stuck thinking the world’s against us. We have to keep fighting.”

He went on: “We need to defend those moments better. We’re making small errors, and every time, the ball ends up in our net. That has to stop.

“It all comes down to results, and we should’ve won today. Every little thing adds up, but we’ll keep working hard.”

After Brighton, Chelsea go up against Leeds in the FA Cup semi-final next Sunday.

Alejandro Garnacho has opened up about why things ended the way they did at Manchester United, admitting he played a part in how it all fell apart at Old Trafford.

At 21, Garnacho was once one of United's top young talents. He joined the club as a teenager back in 2020, but things turned bad pretty quickly after that early promise. Once he had a fallout with Ruben Amorim, he found himself pushed aside, and it was obvious he wasn’t going to stay in Manchester much longer.

That long, drawn-out £40 million move to Chelsea finally went through last summer. At the time, speaking in December, Garnacho said he didn’t regret how it ended at United. “Sometimes in life, you have to change things to move forward or get better as a player. This was the right club and [moving] was an easy decision,” he said.

But a few months later, talking with Premier League Productions, you could tell his feelings had shifted. He looked back at his last stretch at United and said, “I remember in the last six months, I just wasn’t playing like before. I started ending up on the bench. Not the worst thing, I was only 20, after all, but in my mind, I felt like I should be playing every game.”

Then he admitted, “Honestly, maybe some of it was on me. I started doing the wrong things. But that’s how life goes; you have to make decisions. I’m proud to still be in the Premier League and playing for a club like this.”

When someone asked if leaving United hurt, Garnacho got a little nostalgic. “Yeah, probably. I loved that club, you know? They believed in me from the start. They brought me from Spain to the academy and then to the first team. It was four or five years of love for the fans, the stadium, everything was really good."

"But sometimes, you have to make changes for your own good or the next step in your life. I only have good memories of Man Utd.”