Premier League 2018-19: The winners, losers and players to improve from Chelsea's perfect start to the season

Losers:

Gary Cahill

Sarri's preferred centre-backs so far this season are Antonio Rudiger and David Luiz

Sarri's preferred centre-backs so far this season are Antonio Rudiger and David Luiz. With Ethan Ampadu and Andreas Christensen second to them, Cahill seems to have fallen down the pecking order.

The Chelsea captain, Sarri is yet to name his captain for this season, did go to the World Cup but hardly played and recently called an end to his international career.

There were reports that Cahill might leave Chelsea with clubs interested in the 32-year-old but Sarri explained in a press conference that Cahill needs more time to adapt to his style.

Sarri on Cahill: "In this moment, for a defender it's more difficult to play in my team after only 20 days of training. It's easier I think for offensive players, but for defensive players it's more difficult. In this moment he needs to have much more defensive training" #cfc

— Liam Twomey (@liam_twomey) August 24, 2018

The English international did not even travel with the squad to Newcastle United and given how it stands at the moment, it does not look like he would be getting any game time soon in the Premier League.

Emerson Palmieri

Things did not go according to plan for the Italian defender

Emerson Palmieri had a good pre-season and would have looked to challenge Alonso for the place at the left-back. However, given Alonso's form at the moment, it does not look like he would be playing in the league anytime soon.

The Italian might play in the cup games and Europa League but dethroning Alonso from the starting 11 in the league looks next to impossible right now. He hasn't even been in matchday squads for some time now!

Another player to lose out is Danny Drinkwater. With the loan of Bakayoko, Drinkwater would have hoped to get some playing time but scratch that with the arrival of Mateo Kovacic. The former Leicester player might leave in January if he doesn't get sufficient game time.