The meeting was in stark contrast to the last clash between the sides at the King Power Stadium at the end of April when a 3-1 win put Chelsea on the brink of the title and left Leicester’s survival hopes in the balance.
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Mourinho will want his players to pay heed to his methods after claiming on Monday that he feels his work has been betrayed by the players.
Mourinho admitted that Leicester were the better team for the majority of the game, but stated that his side “conceded two goals that are unacceptable for me”. When you have some players, especially in crucial positions, it’s hard.
He has consistently maintained that it would be a “miracle” if Leicester could finish in the top four and secure Champions League qualification come May.
Despite all the controversy, former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard told Sky Sports that he doesn’t believe the Portuguese has lost the dressing room.
Victory was sweet for Leicester’s Italian manager Ranieri who was sacked by Chelsea in 2004, a year after Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich took ownership of the London club. I don’t think they are training different or picking different players and a different system.
There was the sight of Diego Costa – a striker seemingly more interested in picking a fight than scoring goals – confronting Chelsea’s defenders and gesturing to them that they are asleep.
Mourinho said: “I accept we are in the relegation zone but I don’t accept we are in a relegation battle”.
With the situation as dire as it is, Mourinho should be calling this shower’s professionalism into question, publicly or privately.
He then turned Cesar Azpilicueta one way then the other until he had the yard of space he needed to bend the ball around Courtois and into the far corner of the net.
Mourinho: I don’t know any way than working at the top level – and that’s what I do every day.
With the January window approaching, Mourinho expressed his faith in his current players, “I don’t think it is right I go to the board and say these players are not good and we need to spend 50 or 100 or whatever”. I don’t know when we can achieve this. We prepared for everything related to the opponent, identified the movements where they have scored nearly all their goals from.
Chelsea’s nightmare EPL season has gone from bad to worse after falling 2-1 to surprise leaders Leicester City on Tuesday morning AEDT. He’s clearly injured. During the game I have no time to understand what is going on. “But it is frustrating to see what they are doing in training and what they do in matches”.
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“My players got all that information in last three days, you can ask them, they are honest guys who will tell you it is true”. I want to stay. I don’t think they can.
