Chelsea suffered a crushing blow as they lost to the Premier League’s bottom side Sunderland.

The Blues were beaten 1-0 at the Stadium of Light, where Enzo Le Fee’s first-half penalty proved the only goal of the game.

Xabi Alonso’s side had plenty of the ball but struggled to create high-quality opportunities in front of goal and were punished at the other end by Le Fee’s comprehensive spot-kick which was awarded controversially just a few minutes after Cole Palmer was left stunned he had not won a spot-kick of his own.

Dom Smith was on hand to rate the Chelsea players’ performances…

Didn’t have a huge amount to do except for his brilliant save from Wilson Isidor. But was nowhere near saving from Sunderland’s controversial penalty, sent the wrong way by Le Fee.

Helpful in attack on the overlap and put in a fine cross that Morgan Rogers wasted. Defensively not as impressive.

Did well on a couple of occasions in the first half to put Brian Brobbey off but was also run ragged by him at other moments. Has not been looking particularly solid recently but this defeat was not his fault.

Conceded a controversial penalty which looked like six of one and half a dozen of the other from himself and Brobbey. Taken off at half time.

Lively again but couldn’t create anything of use to Chelsea down that left channel.

Important in the middle of the park at calming things down as he came back into the team after missing the Manchester United victory with illness.

Was impressive once more, producing a couple of nice dribbles like last weekend against United. Is on form at the moment.

Slipped into centre-back role after the break when Colwill was taken off but was not as effective as he often is overall. Booked.

A quiet afternoon for the England attacker. It just didn’t fall for the 24-year-old. An off-day.

Looked to make things happen but, like his mate Rogers, was pretty ineffectual on a desperately disappointing afternoon for Chelsea.

Led the line as best he could but just doesn’t have the physical presence of an out-and-out striker and was taken off just after the hour mark.

Was bright in the second half down the right channel as he went past players but just didn’t have the all-important end product. Committed a few needless fouls when he had the ball and feared losing it.

Barely noticeable once he had come on for the final half-four except for a poor headed miss in stoppage time.

Had one shot which was close to lobbing Robin Roefs but was otherwise pretty quiet.

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