Forget Top Four, We just want to win – Jose Mourinho

Chelsea’s eighth loss in 15 league games was the club’s first defeat against league newcomers since April 2001.

Was second-half improvement down to Diego Costa? And then, on 82 minutes, sub Glenn Murray headed home after Courtois had failed to clear from a corner.

“We’ve got the Special One”, Bournemouth fans chanted about their 38-year-old manager, adopting Mourinho’s self-styled description.

The Spain worldwide was benched for the Blues’ trip to White Hart Lane and was again forced to settle for a spot among the substitutes for the visit of Bournemouth.

Costa stretched to toe-poke Cesc Fabregas’ ball over the top, but Boruc saved.

“I think it was very considerate of Chelsea to swap sides with Leicester this season”.

Mourinho’s Chelsea is only two points ahead of Bournemouth in 14th place – in the league it won in May – following its first defeat against a newly promoted team since April 2001.

Goalkeeper Artur Boruc returned from a six-week injury lay off and denied Chelsea time and again.

Leicester moved two points clear at the top after Riyad Mahrez’s hat-trick sank Garry Monk’s sorry Swansea side.

“We didn’t deserve to lose this game”.

“I think Simon’s committed to his slide”, he said.

Olivier Giroud made up for an earlier own goal by scoring in the second half to help give Arsenal a 3-1 victory over Sunderland and end a three-game winless run in the Premier League.

Stoke tore the visitors apart in the first 15 minutes, Swiss Shaqiri, known as “The Alpine Messi”, twice setting up Marko Arnautovic to score from close range. “They were taking time, calling for the medical department and drinking water like it is basketball time out”. “Maybe it’s the reason why we didn’t play with the energy that we need to win”. “It was a disappointing start and we could not recover from it”. You come here as a learning experience, probably more learning than you hope to get a result.

He added: “Chelsea will never be fighting for relegation – no chance”.

Bournemouth’s players celebrate beating Chelsea after the English Premier League soccer match be … That’s not the problem.

The Portuguese now feels that the Blues’ realistic target is to finish in the top six.

Howe, in contrast, was understandably delighted. We worked hard for that performance. We started the season with this squad. If some player is not capable of that, of that routine, is quite an individual problem. I thought we were magnificent defensively.

“Scoring goals is a lot about individuals. I think that would’ve been extremely harsh”. “Every setback they’ve had, they’ve bounced back”.