READ: Mourinho’s Comments After Chelsea Defeat by Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge
Glenn Murray grabbed a late victor for Bournemouth to stun Stamford Bridge this evening and leave the Blues just three points above the relegation zone. It is that our objective is to finish top four.
“I think we have been a bit unlucky some games this season, but we have the same good team as past year and that team won the league”.
“I’m concerned and I was concerned before this game”.
“Obviously Chelsea will not be fighting for relegation – no chance”. That is not the problem.
Jose Mourinho feels Chelsea will miss out on Champions League qualification via a top-four finish after their defeat to Bournemouth. “The bad moment is my responsibility and the players’ responsibility”, Mourinho concluded. If you analyse matches, you can clearly identify a few players who are not able to be consistent all the time.
Jose Mourinho’s position as Chelsea manager is back in the spotlight and defeat to his former club Porto on Wednesday could mark the end of his second spell at Stamford Bridge.
Defeat to Eddie Howe’s side leaves the west London club 14 points off Manchester United in the final Champions League spot. In the moment when our opponent were thinking just about defending a clean sheet they cross the halfway line for the first time and scored. “Again I feel that we don’t have the right to ask the club for players”, said Mourinho.
“Surely they shouldn’t be having to play without a striker because Costa is out of form”.
Costa took to the field for the second-half, and the hosts did improve and had a reasonable shout for a penalty after Simon Francis handled in the box. “We broke well and counter-attacked well a couple of times and gave them problems and we defended well”. It was a penalty and the goal was offside.
“The referee made an important mistake, but it’s part of the game”.
“Time-outs, stopping the game, asking for the medical team to go on, drinks for a minute…They were more than ready for basketball and they did it very well”, he added.
“In the first half we were passive and didn’t press enough – were not intense enough. It was really emotional in the dressing room afterwards, so I’m so proud of them”.