Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho admitted his team might not be able to qualify for next season’s Champions League after losing 1-0 at home to Bournemouth.
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And Mourinho, whose side sit on 15 points – 14 behind fourth-placed Manchester United – believes that Champions League qualification may well be out of the question.
Mourinho added: “I am concerned of course”. Chelsea threw everything at the Cherries, but ultimately couldn’t find a goal, leaving them to suffer an eighth league defeat of the season. That is not the problem.
‘Before the game I was still thinking we can finish in the top four.
The Portuguese told Sky Sports: “We dominated the game but one refereeing mistake cost us”. “When it’s 0-0 after 80 minutes they were more nervous than us because we don’t expect anything out of these games really”.
Baba, 21, has been very inconsistent for Chelsea in the English Premier League after only three games in fifteen matches.
‘The referee made an important mistake but that’s part of the game and when our opponents were thinking about defending and keeping a clean sheet, they scored the goal’.
“They were taking time, calling for the medical department and drinking water like it is a basketball time out”.
“First half, it was quite even. We were well in it. Second half we’ve played under pressure and we’ve had to dig in, we’ve had to defend, put our bodies on the line”.
Chelsea was punished by Bournemouth when Courtois could only punch a corner clear as far as Steve Cook, whose bouncing effort looped towards goal, allowing Murray, who managed to stay onside, to head in from three yards out.
“If a player is not capable of giving maximum every day and every match, then the collective pays, but I feel strong as ever”. “If you analyse match after match there are a few layers where it is hard to be consistent”. You realise that was an individual moment where the player did better than he’s doing.
A visit by Premier League new boys to Stamford Bridge was one that came with goals in gargantuan proportions for the London Blues but not anymore. If the Blues want to prove the latter number is nothing more than a fluke, a positive result is absolutely necessary at the King Power Stadium.
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