Chelsea left-back Ben Chilwell has admitted that Chelsea are “in a deep hole” after Chelsea’s poor season continued on Tuesday night with a 3-1 defeat at Arsenal.

“We’re in a deep hole at the moment,” said Chilwell. “To get ourselves out of it we need to stick together. There will be a lot of outside noise, but we need to stick together, train hard and, coming into games, show the effort the fans want to see.

“It’s pretty big going into next season. If we can get some results, show we’re a team and give the fans something to smile about, hopefully we can take that into pre-season.”

Chilwell added: “We’re hurt and angry, every negative emotion you could think of. It was very poor. We knew that if we came here and played like that we would have to expect to concede three goals.

“We weren’t getting tight to anyone, weren’t laying a hand on anyone. We were passive.

“A lot of the performances recently have been below the standard we set. The first half was another example of that. We have to look at ourselves.”