John Terry weighs in on Chelsea's Premier League hopes as England icon delivers social media rant

Leeds took the lead early with Jaka Bijol's first goal for the club, and followed it up with Ao Tanaka arrowing a brilliant strike into the bottom corner for his first of the season two minutes before half-time.

Chelsea pulled one back soon after the restart through substitute Pedro Neto, but Dominic Calvert-Lewin restored Leeds’ two-goal advantage as the Yorkshire side snapped a four-game losing run to ease some of the pressure on under-fire boss Daniel Farke.

Speaking after the game, Terry said: "What a poor performance that was. Everything I said about Leeds away is they’re going to be aggressive, the fans are going to be up for it, the fans are going to be hostile.

"You either have to match them or you go and take the sting out of it completely and we certainly didn’t do that in the first half.

"We showed glimpses in the second half when [Pedro] Neto comes on and gets back in the game at 2-1 but we can’t perform like that.

"We can’t follow two unbelievable performances against Barcelona and Arsenal because it’s certainly not going to make you title contenders at the end of it.

He added: "That’s what’s going to cost us at the end of it, we’re inexperienced and if you can’t go Leeds away and know what to expect. You need to go there and show the fight and match Leeds in every single way.

"You need to earn the right to play and after 15, 20 minutes then you play your football. We didn’t do that and that’s going to cost us.

"We’ve got Bournemouth away and some tough away fixtures coming up which are only getting tougher. We need to find a way to deal with that.

"Even when I played you know Leeds away a fight is on your hands right from the word go. You need to make sure everyone’s up for it."

The club legend said: "Goal from a set piece, individual mistakes, defensively there were mistakes.

"Clearly not good enough."

He also criticised Enzo Maresca's squad rotation, adding: "Maybe that’s an opportunity for the manager to look at the squad and go, ‘Rotation is not for me going forward, I know my best starting XI or 13, 14 players and I’m going to stick with that and the players are just going to have to deal with it’."

The performance comes after the Londoners beat Barcelona 3-0 at Stamford Bridge last week and held Arsenal 1-1 with 10 men on Sunday.

Maresca has made more changes across all competitions than any other Premier League manager this season.

The board and sporting directors are fully behind the policy.

But it has been blamed for costing the Blues on occasion in both Europe and the Premier League.

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