Andreas Christensen has reportedly angered Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri by leaving the substitutes\u2019 bench during Saturday’s 2-0 defeat to Arsenal.<\/p>\n
The Denmark defender has fallen out of favour under Sarri this season and has struggled for first-team minutes.<\/p>\n
And The Times claim Christensen went to the dressing room when the Italian made his final substitution with 10 minutes left to play, but did not return to the bench.<\/p>\n
He is understood to have told his team-mates that he was going to the toilet, but it remains unclear whether he received permission from Sarri or his coaching staff.<\/p>\n
Sarri is believed to be unimpressed by Christensen’s lack of professionalism.<\/p>\n
Christensen, who has three-and-a-half years left on his current deal, has been linked with moves to AC Milan and Barcelona, but a Stamford Bridge exit seems unlikely with the club keen to offload 33-year-old Gary Cahill instead.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\tChristensen has found himself out of Chelsea's first-team this season and being forced to play a back-up role to David Luiz and Antonio Rudiger\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Premier League: Appearances<\/em> – 1 \/\u00a0 Minutes<\/em> – 90 Sarri questioned his players\u2019 mentality after their performance at the Emirates and is alleged to have held clear-the-air talks with his stars\u00a0at a training session earlier this week.<\/p>\n Fourth placed Chelsea are now just three points ahead of Arsenal and Manchester United in the race to qualify for next season’s Champions League.<\/p>\n The Blues will have to overturn a 1-0 deficit when they take on Tottenham in the second leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andreas Christensen has reportedly angered Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri by leaving the substitutes\u2019 bench during Saturday’s 2-0 defeat to Arsenal. The Denmark defender has fallen out of favour under Sarri this season and has struggled for first-team minutes. And The Times claim Christensen went to the dressing room when the Italian made his final substitution…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFA Cup: Appearances<\/em> – 1 \/ Minutes<\/em> – 90
\nCarabao Cup: Appearances<\/em> – 4 \/ Minutes<\/em> – 310
\nEuropa League: Appearances<\/em> – 6 \/ Minutes<\/em> – 540<\/p>\n