Brighton were 13 points behind Chelsea just a few weeks ago. Now, Fabian Hurzeler’s side have gone above them into sixth. They’ve picked up 13 points from their last 15 available since a 1-0 defeat to Arsenal at the start of March.

“We played a good game, we defended well, we had a good structure in possession and created a lot of chances. All in all a good performance and now we have to keep going.

“Another great night and another great connection with the fans. Overall a positive night and now it is about staying humble,” Hurzeler told Sky Sports.

Brighton’s Ferdi Kadioglu, outstanding tonight and a goalscorer in the 3-0 win over Chelsea, sums up how the Seagulls dominated their opponents.

“Today we didn’t let them breathe. Amazing game from every player. We have to continue like this as we have some goals this season.”

They’re pushing for Europe!

Speaking to Sky Sports, defender Trevoh Chalobah claimed Chelsea put in their full effort against Brighton.

He said: “We can be accountable. As players, we have to be accountable for the performance. We know how much the fans are behind us, we know they’re disappointed with the results. We’re not winning games. We have to stick together and pulled through.

“I think the boys were running their socks off. If you look in the dressing room, everyone is tired. It’s nothing to do with effort. We gave it our all. We got beat today.”

The stats would disagree. Chelsea were outran for the 34th time in 34 league games this season.

“The performance in terms of professionalism wasn’t there. It was a really, really difficult night, the most difficult night – not even here at this magnificent football club – but in my career. Some of the things I witnessed today, I don’t want to ever see again.

“If you’re playing at this elite football club, or any football club, to be even accused of throwing the towel in is unacceptable. That’s all I’m going to say. I’m hurting, I’m feeling numb. That doesn’t represent me. That doesn’t represent the football club in any way. That has to change.”

It was one of those games where you’d love to focus on Brighton’s performance but, at the end of yet another chastening evening it was hard to take the eyes off the Chelsea captain. There was Enzo Fernandez, standing there mostly motionless in front of the away crowd, other than shrugging his shoulders. That he was wearing the armband only two weeks after being dropped from the first team added to the sense of farce, of a club shredded by so many bad decisions.

What was Fernandez actually doing here? What was he thinking? Maybe it was an apt image in its own bizarre way, because you can say this of the entire club right now. “A sad night for the club”, as one Chelsea insider said. Most visibly, there’s just the way they’re playing. What is Liam Rosenior trying to do?

In his interview with Match of the Day Sports, Liam Rosenior also accused his Chelsea players of lacking “desire, spirit and courage”.

“It is accountability. I have defended the players at times when it was the correct thing but I can’t defend that performance. It doesn’t represent this football club, it doesn’t represent anything I ask from the group and that has to change.

“I feel numb I’m so angry. I always speak on what I see and that was unacceptable. The goals we conceded were unacceptable and that is something I have to hold my hands up to.

“I will look at the team, will look at individuals and I will look at a team I can trust to do the basics of football and we should not be talking about the basics of football at this level. It is something we have to adjust very quickly.

“Tonight was not [about] tactical. This was about desire, spirit, courage and I did not see enough of that tonight. Nowhere near good enough and we have to improve that.”

Liam Rosenior said he is “numb” after the manner of Chelsea’s defeat. He called it “unacceptable”, “indefensible”, and said “something has to change”.

He told Sky Sports: “It was unacceptable in every aspect of the game. I keep coming out and defending the players, that was indefensible, that performance tonight. The manner of the goals we conceded, the duels that we lost. Something has to change drastically right here, right now.

“We need to look in the mirror. I need to look in the mirror. But I can’t keep coming out here and defending some of the things that we’re seeing. Manchester United, genuinely result wasn’t there but I felt we turned a corner.

“But the general attitude, spirit was lacking – determination from three or four of the starting eleven. That’s nowhere near enough for this club. I can’t come out and lie. I tell the truth. That was an unacceptable performance at every level.”

Chelsea have failed to score a Premier League goal in almost eight hours.

They didn’t even manage to have a shot on target tonight.

Brighton had nine. They dominated every department.

It’s a FA Cup semi-final against Leeds United on Sunday at Wembley. Leeds have won back-to-back games and will be full of confidence. Chelsea had no fight, no spirit, no ideas tonight. Leeds will be up for it, that’s for sure.

Does Rosenior even get to Sunday?