If he didn’t know it already, Antonio Conte will now be familiar with just how fickle Chelsea can be. The team that fell so far and climbed back so well delivered one of those mystifyingly bad afternoons that Guus Hiddink must have thought was behind them.
To his immense credit, such displays are plainly the exception these days and not the norm that they had become under Jose Mourinho.
But in the process of suffering their first league defeat of the Dutchman’s second coming, Chelsea did plummet to terrible lows here. They were dreadful in the first half especially, undermined by frequent defensive errors and unable to adapt to a Swansea side that suddenly and without warning started playing exceptionally well.
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