Chelsea flops went to a Mayfair party restaurant and bar after their humiliating defeat at Everton, with Mauricio Pochettino granting captain Reece James permission to party.

Chelsea’s stars reportedly went on a Christmas night out just hours after losing to Everton in order to bolster team spirit and morale.

Mauricio Pochettino’s team finished second-best at Goodison Park on Sunday afternoon, losing 2-0 thanks to goals from Abdoulaye Doucoure and Lewis Dobbin.

The setback was the Blues’ seventh of the Premier League season, as they have struggled throughout the calendar year.

According to the Telegraph, captain Reece James gathered Chelsea’s players for a ‘Christmas bonding session’ mere hours after the loss in reaction.

According to the report, James had planned the night out ahead to the game, but it was ruined when the full-back was hurt during the Everton game.

The night out, however, went forward after the players returned to London and proceeded straight to Bagatelle in Mayfair before heading on to Tape nightclub.

According to their website, attending Bagatelle is “like being invited into the home and to the table of an epicurean bon vivant from the French Riviera.”

The restaurant’s main courses vary from £30-£115, with a large selection of chicken and fish dishes offered.

Meanwhile, Tape, located in Oxford Circus, is a popular hangout for footballers, musicians, and other well-known Londoners.

The facility has a ‘Tape Sundays’ event, which the Blues stars would have loved.

According to the outlet, Pochettino gave his approval for the evening to go forward and did not feel the need to cancel it after their terrible outcome.

The night out had been planned as a Christmas party, but after the setback, it was transformed into a much-needed bonding time.

James was pulled out against Everton due to a hamstring injury, but he was still in charge of the night out on Sunday.

Following their 2-0 defeat against Everton on Sunday, the Blues’ expensively assembled side was chastised for a lack of leadership.

Two-time Premier League champion John Obi Mikel argued on his The Obi Wan podcast that the Blues lacked leadership compared to his time at the club, when John Terry, Frank Lampard, and Didier Drogba set the bar.

‘The team has no identity in terms of how they want to play. ‘I believe in giving managers time; I do not believe in firing managers left, right, and center,’ Mikel stated.

‘Are we just going to sit on the fence and claim we’re still rebuilding?

‘We don’t have time for that. We must begin winning games. When I look at the team, I notice a dearth of leaders.

‘When I looked around the pitch during the game against Everton, there was no single leader.

‘There is no one to come out on the pitch and go at your colleagues and say, ‘Wake up, what are you doing?’, come to you and yell at you – this is what we had before,’ says the coach.