Jose Mourinho clashed with Roberto Martinez after Chelsea’s defeat to Everton
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho remained in defiant mood after his team’s third defeat of the season, the same number of games they lost in the whole of last term.
Jose Mourinho denied last night that he was feeling the strain of Chelsea’s disastrous start to the English Premier League football season.
Chelsea’s tally of just four points from a possible 15 means they have made their worst start to a top-flight campaign since 1986.
Speaking on BT Sport’s coverage of Everton against Chelsea, broadcast from 12pm on Saturday, September 12, Harry Redknapp and Paul Scholes were full of praise for Roberto Martinez’s side following their victory.
“Roberto, next time tell me go before you because we have to travel”. “To win the title, I don’t know”, Mourinho said.
“And John Stones clearly showed we could not have replaced a player like that”.
Kelechi Iheanacho, who has the appropriate middle name of Promise, burst onto the Premier League stage on Saturday when he scored the 90th minute victor against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park moments after appearing as a late substitute in only his second appearance for Man City.
“I know that now it’s easy for everybody to criticise me and the players and [say] “everything is wrong”.
The manager said he saw me as a valuable part of the squad and wanted to keep me. “A team with obviously some doubts, even without every lucky or unlucky incident in every match“. I was still coming on in games with a good bit of time to play, so that gave me hope that I could still be here at Everton.
Ivanovic said: “The next game is very important for us”.
But Tim Rolls, chair of the Chelsea Supporters Trust, is confident Mourinho will turn things around and does not expect a backlash against the Portuguese manager.
“He would never left Everton down”.
The Chelsea manager had little to be happy about during the game as his key players like Eden Hazard, Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas could not do enough to get a point out of the midday clash.