The Belgian winger had already given his match shirt to a Chelsea fan (Picture: YouTube/Man City)

Although Chelsea were on the receiving end of their worst ever Premier League defeat on Sunday, the players were in good spirits in the tunnel afterwards as they swapped shirts with their Manchester City rivals.

Maurizio Sarri’s side lost 6-0, conceding four times in an astonishing 25-minute opening salvo from the hosts, marking their heaviest defeat since a 7-0 loss to Nottingham Forest in 1991.

After the full-time whistle, a number of Chelsea players – notably Eden Hazard and Antonio Rudiger – went to the away support to apologise, as well as giving a couple of delighted young fans their shirts.

There was a huge huddle of players swapping shirts outside the Chelsea dressing room (Picture: YouTube/Man City)

But when Hazard made his way to the dressing room, he found someone else who wanted his shirt: City midfielder, and goalscorer in the match, Ilkay Gundogan.




The Belgian had to dart into the away changing room to grab another shirt to give to the German as a host of players exchanged their tops, and pleasantries, outside the dressing room.

Giroud hung around to swap his unworn shirt with De Bruyne (Picture: YouTube/Man City)

N’Golo Kante enjoyed a chat with former Leicester City teammate Riyad Mahrez – who he won the Premier League title alongside at the King Power – before swapping shirts.

Unused substitute Olivier Giroud waited around to grab Kevin De Bruyne’s, while Pedro swapped with David Silva and Willian nabbed Fernandinho’s shirt.

Sarri looked forlorn as he made his way to the Chelsea dressing room (Picture: YouTube/Man City)

Sarri, meanwhile, made his way to the dressing room alone as he digested a woeful performance, having stormed down the tunnel and missed Pep Guardiola’s offer of a handshake.

Trying to explain the performance afterwards, he said: ‘My feeling this week was really good. It was good during training and the technical meeting and the warm-up.

‘The goal after three minutes made it very difficult to play against these opponents, who played fantastic football. The motivation today was good. We were not able to stay in the match and react later.’