Jose Mourinho has taken the blame after Chelsea’s 1-2 Premier League defeat to Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
The Champions dropped points yet again this season in a game that was Mourinho’s 100th home game in the Premier League as Chelsea manager.
The result leaves Chelsea without a clean sheet this season after four games as Bakary Sako and Joel Ward picked their moments to hurt the Chelsea faithful in the stadium with two well taken goals.
Speaking to BBC Sport, Jose pointed at himself and some of his players who failed to turn up in their latest defeat to an Alan Pardew managed side.
I cannot say I had 11 players at the same time performing. To be fair, 2-3 of them, individual performance far from good,” he said.
I blame myself not to change one of them, because I kept him in the game for 90 minutes.
He also took time to praise Crystal Palace for the relentless effort to beat his side but believed Chelsea tried evrything to get a result from the game.
Congratulations to Palace. It’s a fantastic result for them and a very good performance. We didn’t deserve to lose. But Palace gave us a very difficult game. The result should be a draw, which would still be bad for us,” he told BBC Sport.
We did enough not to lose. We had good opportunities, a huge penalty appeal at 0-0.
My two centre-backs and keeper played a very good game. We created lots of chances but we had a couple of players who were not in the game. When the team is not consistent and there aren’t 10 players on the pitch at a certain level it’s difficult.
I said before the season, it’d be more difficult to win matches against non-title candidates as they all have good players and good teams – like West Ham winning at Liverpool today.
