Chelsea stopper Edouard Mendy has opened up on what’s going wrong at Stamford Bridge.

Despite splashing £217.3million on new players, Chelsea have slipped to eighth in the Premier League with five defeats in their past eight games.

He told the club’s official website: “What we are missing at the moment is consistency, being good for the whole match. We often have a bad patch, concede a goal and it makes it too hard to recover. We need to find more consistency in matches to be able to get past this level of team.

“It’s difficult to explain because we were in good form and then we got into difficulty. It happened very quickly. We need to concentrate on the return phase now and getting near the levels we were at.

“It’s up to us to rectify the current situation and above all show more. We have to stay together and stay as positive as possible during this delicate moment.”