It is the first time in 16 years that Chelsea has lost three consecutive league games and Roman Abramovich has never seen such a sequence in his time as owner of the London club.
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“It’s like Tiger Woods”.
“In the past, when a Mourinho team won, it was Mourinho who won, and when a Mourinho team lost, it was Mourinho who lost”, said Gullit, who won the FA Cup with Chelsea in 1997. I think you can see from our performance we’re fighting for one another, fighting for everyone involved.
“They lost that aura of invincibility”.
“The players sense it also that the opposition is not afraid of you any more”.
Chelsea have made contact with potential replacements for Jose Mourinho with top candidates being former managers Roberto Di Matteo and Guus Hiddink as well as ex-Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers, according to the Sunday Express.
Emblematically, Chelsea played Saturday’s game without its outspoken manager, José Mourinho, who was banned from the premises following an “expletive-laden rant” at a referee last month. To the last drop. “I think we’ve been unlucky but the confidence is still there”. I was emotional. You’re right.
“Didier will always offer something to a club and the group that loves him and that he loves – no doubt about it. But will I bring him back? No”.
Yet improved performances from the Chelsea team and positive vibes emerging from the Stamford Bridge dressing room have earned Mourinho another stay of execution in his post.
And Pellegrini, who is already the third longest-serving manager in the top-flight behind Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger and Eddie Howe, of Bournemouth, said: “Things have changed in England and I don’t understand why they are now so impatient”. Eden Hazard, the 2014-15 Premier League Player of the Year, again showed the tricky, ball-playing skills that tormented defences last season but more often than not, Chelsea’s attacks petered out when the ball went to Costa.
Mourinho’s public and private criticism of individual players is at the heart of their dissatisfaction, with many believing they have been unfairly singled out while the Portuguese protects his “favourites”.
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A weird criticism to be levelled at any player, especially during a game!
