Chelsea were outplayed in the first half and goalkeeper Asmir Begovic had already saved three times from Sergio Aguero before the Argentinian, who had also shot wide, opened the scoring after 31 minutes.
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Defeat completed a miserable week for Mourinho, widely criticised for demoting his medics Eva Carneiro and Jon Fearn after last weekend’s 2-2 draw with Swansea City, and means Chelsea have failed to win one of their first two league games for the first time since 1998.
He said: “In some parts of the game we controlled it and looked good, but after that maybe our concentration went down and we let them create some problems for us”.
“If the 1-0 was a doubtful result at minute 70, 75, the 3-0 is completely fake because at 1-0 Chelsea was the better team in the second half”.
But despite conceding two more goals in the absence of their captain, Mourinho claimed his shock substitution was proved right.
“We are not sending a message to anybody, we are just playing the way we always try to”, he added.
City dominated for most of the match and deserved their victory. Some people thought his career was over. Manuel Pellegrini’s group played outstanding and finished Sunday with a second 3-0 win to start the new season.
“I had to decide on John or (Gary) Cahill because Zouma is the fastest player we have in our defensive line”, Mourinho explained of his decision to hook Terry. Last season’s top scorer in the Premier League is up and running.
“We played better and 3-0 is the minimum we deserved”. “We were punished for our mistakes for the second and third goal”. I think it’s wrong to say the whole season was bad, but certainly at the end you go away very disappointed.
“The best team in the first half won the game, [but] the best team in the second half was Chelsea for sure”.
The damage to Terry could be more long term as in the opinion of Quinn, the Chelsea leader and legend may is about to be “phased out of the club” by Mourinho.
Chelsea improved at the start of the second half and Ramires has the ball in the net only for the linesman’s flag to be raised for offside.
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“I’m the one that plays John every game, made him captain, brought him back from a hard situation with other managers”.
