Chelsea slumped to its eighth Premier League defeat on Saturday, surprisingly beaten 1-0 at home by Bournemouth.
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And the Portuguese has criticised referee Mike Jones for two key decision which went against his team.
Chelsea’s defeat put Manchester United’s frustrations into perspective.
With Diego Costa left on the bench, it was left to Eden Hazard to lead the line for the hosts. Fortunately for Hazard, Gary Cahill blocked.
The goal was by no means Bournemouth’s only opportunity however and fit-again goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, playing for the first time in three months, made a number of saves.
Mourinho had seen enough, sending on Costa for Oscar.
While Chelsea has enjoyed hundreds of millions of dollars of investment from billionaire Roman Abramovich in the last 12 years, Bournemouth has only benefited from more modest Russian investment from Maxim Demin since 2011.
Costa stretched to toe-poke Cesc Fabregas’ ball over the top, but Boruc saved.
Howe steered Bournemouth into the topflight for the first time by winning the League Championship in May. Chelsea is approaching the midway point of the season an alarming 17 points behind surprise leader Leicester. – Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) sums up change of fortunes for both Chelsea and Leicester as the champions suffer another Premier League defeat.
Mourinho was scathing in his criticism of his some of his Chelsea players, although he insisted he was not disappointed with the performance, only the result. But Costa was out of the starting XI for a second straight game. Chelsea won the game 2-0.
“We dominated the game but one refereeing mistake cost us”, Mourinho said.
Mourinho said after the game, “the ref made an important mistake, but that is part of the game”, referring to a handball by a Bournemouth defender in the box that would have resulted in a penalty.
“We had a lot of chances and half-chances and we couldn’t touch the ball, which is disappointing because with all these crosses from the right side, you have to touch the ball in the face of the goal, then it is no chance for the ‘keeper”, Mourinho said. In the second half we did that. “They were stopping the play, calling for the medical department and drinking water like it is basketball time out”. “But they did very well”.
“Mourinho is a coach who will always want a victory and now against his old club”, Casillas said. We started the season with this squad.
“I am concerned, of course”.
“We have had a good group phase but the pain was the defeat at home by Dinamo Kyiv”. Chelsea will win matches and come out of that area. To get in the top four?
Howe, in contrast, was understandably delighted.
“I’m concerned obviously, I was concerned before this game”, Mourinho told Sky Sports. I rather think we will win.
“I know if we win we will be first and if we lose we might go into the Europa League”. I thought we were magnificent defensively. “There were question marks about our defending, but we have answered those questions today”. “I think that would’ve been extremely harsh”.
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“If our players are not able to give the maximum every day that is a problem”.
