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“The fans will be happy and they will be going home with smiles on their faces but rightly they are disappointed and so are we, we don’t want to be where we are”.
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Hazard won the PFA Player of the Year last season but has struggled to hit the same heights this year, and he walked off with an injury against Leicester after only briefly consulting the manager.
Each Chelsea goal – from Branislav Ivanovic, Pedro and a penalty by Oscar – was met with chants of “Jose Mourinho, Jose Mourinho”. “Where were you when we were shit?” asked the fans.
“I told the players whatever their feelings were regarding the situation, they had a responsibility to the football club and the supporters”, said Holland, who took charge of the team with Hiddink watching from the stands.
Sunderland, though, meekly provided Chelsea with the platform to demonstrate the talents undoubtedly still in the squad.
“Where were you when you were (expletive)?”
Despite the hostility from their own fans, Chelsea made a storming start, Ivanovic heading in Willian’s corner in the fifth minute and Pedro slamming home from Willian’s cross eight minutes later.
After leaving PSV and joining Fenerbahce in 1990, he returned to the club in 2002 and won three more league titles in a four-year spell. We both team and fans played a great game this afternoon.
“Our position is very poor, had we lost we would have gone into the bottom three, so it’s a very important win”.
Late on the substitutions of Chelsea’s Cesc Fàbregas and Diego Costa were greeted by a chorus of boos from some sections of the ground – Emenalo making a point of rising to his feet to applaud the players.
With Mourinho sacked, the managerial spotlight intensified on Manchester United’s Louis van Gaal as his side suffered a third consecutive defeat, lowly Norwich City winning 2-1 for their first victory at Old Trafford since 1989.
The Blues also had new interim manager Guus Hiddink overseeing the action from the stands as he takes the reins again till the end of the season, something that he did a few years ago.
“Chelsea is one of the biggest clubs in the world, but is not where it should be at the moment”.
Holland, in his seventh season with the champions, said it had been a privilege to work with Mourinho, who in private was not the prickly individual seen on the pitch and in his post-match comments.
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Chelsea are now wallowing in a point above relegation zone on the Premier league table.
