Title holders Chelsea rallied with two late goals to salvage a point at St James’ Park, with the Magpies taking a a shock 2-0 lead by the hour mark. It was that bad.
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Chelsea was staring down the barrel of a fourth defeat in its opening seven fixtures, having lost just three in the league the whole of last season, when goals from Ayoze Perez and Georginio Wijnaldum put Newcastle 2-0 ahead.
In quotes published by the Daily Mirror, Krul said, “After Wednesday, I gave a few quotes saying that we needed to be men and I think that’s what we showed (against Chelsea)”.
Chelsea, typically, don’t give up and they came back through an excellent long range strike from Ramires and a free-kick from Willian. “I do not understand it and I do not accept it. I would like to have made more changes than I did but the ones that I did make were enough to improve the whole team”.
“In the first half, from zero to 10, we were minus one – it was that bad”.
“There were too many individual performances that were terrible”. I’m very happy with the second half, really disappointed with the first half. In the end, we had a couple of chances to score a third but at the end of the day we have to play the rest of the season like that second half.
Remy headed Oscar’s cross wide, but with Mourinho poised to introduce Radamel Falcao and Willian on the touchline, Newcastle struck for a second time in the 60th minute.
After the match, Mourinho rated his team’s performance to start the match a “minus-one out of ten”, and wasn’t sure how a team could play so poorly and then turn things around so quickly.
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Charnley continued: “After six league games the truth is we have not achieved the points that any of us had hoped and expected we would do”. The draw means that Mourinho has failed to beat Newcastle in any of his last visits to Tyneside, which was met with a vicious attack by the Portuguese manager. But this is their problem.
