Jose Mourinho sat down with the press to discuss Chelsea FC’s 3-0 loss against Manchester City at The Etihad
Chelsea FC more or less sucked on Sunday afternoon, as they fell 3-0 to a dangerous-looking Manchester City side. In addition to a poor performance, Jose Mourinho controversially replaced John Terry at half-time. The boss addressed his decision, amongst other matters, in his post-match press conference.
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Youngster Kurt Zouma replaced the club captain Terry at the end of the first period, having been warming up since Sergio Aguero’s goal in the 32nd minute. This move shocked many, and fuelled much warranted/unwarranted speculation regarding Terry’s future. This was the first time that Mourinho had substituted him but the boss moved to quell any rumours.
"The point was not to bring John out but to bring Zouma in. I wanted to have my fastest player on the pitch and not on the bench because I knew they would play counter attack and long balls into Aguero. I knew I wanted my team to be dominant and to play in the opposition half. – via chelsea fc.com"
Convinced? It is a fair point. Chelsea were employing a somewhat risky high defensive line, but Terry just didn’t have the pace when the ball was played in behind. Gary Cahill is by no means lightning, but he is quicker than his England teammate and thus this move can be to a degree justified.
As if he knows that many people won’t buy that reasoning, he then took a more defensive stance and reminded everyone that he was the person who has resurrected Terry’s career in the last two seasons.
"With me, he was never substituted but with other managers he was not even selected. He was not playing or people thought his career at Chelsea was over…I’m the one that plays John every game, made him captain, brought him back from a difficult situation with other managers. – via The Daily Mail"
Terry certainly didn’t look pleased on the bench, but it will be mischievous to deduce that there is some sort of rift between the pair. Terry just evidently is a player who doesn’t like to sit out, especially in big games like this.
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Mourinho also commented on the game itself, and although he appreciated that Chelsea sucked in the first half, he interpreted the minor improvement in the second half as something slightly more significant.
"In the first half the best team was winning, in the second the best team was Chelsea. We didn’t score and if the 1-0 result after the second half was an unfair result in my opinion, imagine 2-0 or 3-0."
Ummmm. Yeah Jose, the second half performance was much better, but whether the Blues were actually the better team is debatable. Bearing that in mind, going on to say that the 3-0 result was unfair is downright delusion.
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Chelsea were bad. Chelsea deserved to lose 3-0. Hell, had Aguero taken more of his frankly simple chances, it could have been 5-0. There is no dressing up this result and there is no way it can be successfully twisted.
Perhaps what is more worrying is the prospect of Jose trying to convince his players that they were good. This is not what the club needs at the moment. Chelsea won the Premier League last season and despite having a largely unchanged team, they are completely incoherent as a unit. Everyone in the Blues set-up needs to have a long, hard look in the mirror, and pull themselves together.
They are much better than this.
There is nothing else I really want to cover from his comments, because it is mostly the same old deluded nonsense. This stuff works when the team have lost their first game in ten, or are in the middle of a rough patch while challenging for the title. When Chelsea are five points off the lead after two games and look no closer to improving, this is just insanity.
Sort yourself out fella.
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