Chelsea boss Mourinho: There was one positive from Leicester defeat

The defending Premier League champions sit 16th in the table – just one point off the relegation zone.

Mourinho: They deserved to win because they were better than us during a longer period of time.

Mourinho said: “I accept we are in the relegation zone but I don’t accept we are in a relegation battle”.

Chelsea’s form in the Champions League have been better after they topped their group and will now face French champions Paris Saint-Germain in the Round of 16.

“They were very consistent and very focused”.

“They have to look to Sunderland and Watford and say: we are at the same level as you are”. They were aggressive with everybody playing high intensity, high tempo with a great mentality. “I know one of my best qualities is to read the game for my players, to identify every detail about the opponent”.

Vardy volleyed home Mahrez’s precise right-wing cross after 34 minutes and Algeria forward Mahrez teased Cesar Azpilicueta on the right side of the area before curling a sublime left-foot shot into the far corner three minutes after the break.

Asked whether he believed he would remain in charge, the 52-year-old said: “I want to be, clearly”.

“We have another problem, and it’s the amount of goals our attacking players are scoring – or not scoring in this case”. It’s obvious, everybody knows that.

And then there was Cesc Fabregas, Chelsea’s best distributor of the ball, lobbing a pass under no pressure straight to a Leicester player with one of his first touches as a substitute.

“My players got all that information in training in the last three days and in four types of situations that I identified, they conceded the first and the second goals”.

“The good thing is the spirit – in the last 30 minutes they tried, they gave everything they had, they scored one goal, and they could have scored more”.

” We’ve been here before with Chelsea when managers change midway through the season”.

Jose Mourinho has said he felt “betrayed” by his players in Chelsea’s dramatic 2-1 defeat by Leicester.

“There’s nothing worse than a player coming back and telling other people what they should be doing”.

“I feel my work is betrayed”. I don’t think they can.

Mourinho has an incling that “it must be a serious injury” because he “left the pitch” and “just made the decision not to go in”. I am frustrated by the difference between training and matches.