Cole Palmer cursed Chelsea’s self-inflicted errors as Trevoh Chalobah’s own goal, a penalty conceded by Moises Caicedo and Malo Gusto’s mistake allowed Harry Kane and Bayern Munich to ruin their return to the Champions League.
Palmer scored his own super strike but said all three goals that they conceded were their own fault as Kane gladly accepted the gifts to bag a brace at the Allianz Arena.
‘I thought we played well,’ Palmer said. ‘We’ve shown we deserve to play here. The three goals we conceded were our own fault. We had chances. We deserved better than what we got.
‘We started well. We had early chances to score, but when you make mistakes at the back it’s always difficult to come back into the game.
‘It was a lack of concentration, and not managing the moments correctly. I feel like we showed we can play against the best teams in the competition.
‘The manager said to us before (the game) that he knows we can go toe-to-toe. I think we showed that despite the result. To be back in the competition is nice, we just need to kick on from here.
Cole Palmer rued Chelsea’s self-destructive tendencies as Enzo Maresca’s men lost 3-1 to a confident Bayern side
Old Tottenham foe Harry Kane feasted on the Blues’ errors on a steep learning curve in Munich
‘We are not coming here for it to be a learning curve. We want to compete.’
Enzo Maresca was adamant that Chelsea should have been helped by the Spanish referee Jose Maria Sanchez when Jonathan Tah only received a yellow card for fouling Joao Pedro off the ball after 29 minutes.
The Blues boss said: ‘Why is it not a red card? The referee told me it was not hard or aggressive enough. So to give the red card, they need to see blood?
‘For me, it was a red card. It was a tough decision from the referee because he could maybe judge a different way.’