Chelsea players pick up harsh marks from German newspaper

Chelsea’s Tuesday evening couldn’t have been much worse.

Frank Lampard saw his team outclassed by Bayern Munich, as the German champions won 3-0 at Stamford Bridge. It almost kills the Blues chances of making the next round, and the situation was made worse by Marcos Alonso picking up a straight red, and Jorginho getting a yellow which means he’ll be unavailable for the second leg.

The German media are very happy with Bayern’s performance in London, and, as always, Bild have rated the players.

Bild’s player ratings are very different to what we’re used to. Whilst most ratings are out of 10, or sometimes 5, they use the German school grading system.

1 means very good, 2 is good, 3 is average, 4 is passable but still lacking, 5 is deficient and 6 is insufficient. A 6 is the lowest possible grade and, taking it back to the school grades, it means that not only were things not up to standard, but there was even a failure to understand the basics.

It’s not often players are given a 6, and thankfully nobody from Chelsea picks up that humiliation today. A lot, however, do get 5, which shows just how badly Bild believe the English club played.

With the majority of the team deemed ‘deficient’ only Willy Caballero, Mateo Kovacic, Mason Mount and Ross Barkley got a 4, making them ‘passable but still lacking’.

It’s not pretty.