Jose Mourinho ready to change Chelsea style after missed chances end with Capital One Cup exit at Sunderland
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Manager giving serious thought to switch to counter-attacking tactics after team let slip tie that seemed well within their grasp
Cover-up: Jose Mourinho cannot bear to watch as Chelsea go out of the Capital One Cup at Sunderland Photo: ACTION IMAGES
12:58AM GMT 18 Dec 2013
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Jose Mourinho cursed his Chelsea
side’s lack of ruthlessness after they again showed their fragility away
from home in losing 2-1 at Sunderland
in the Capital
One Cup quarter-finals.
Chelsea were dominant at the Stadium of Light but still found themselves
exiting a cup competition that seemed well within their grasp.
Now Mourinho is threatening to change the style of his team and become more
attritional after his side’s repeated failure to turn possession into
victories.
“We had chances and chances and chances but not enough goals. Maybe the way to
rectify it is not to concede as many goals,” the manager said.
“We lose goals and the opponents come alive. We scored against Sunderland and
afterwards we had two or three more chances. If we had scored then goodbye,
but we kept the opponents alive.
“We are going in one direction and the right direction, but it is quite
frustrating. Football is about getting results and it’s quite frustrating as
we may have to take a step back in order to be more consistent at the back.
"It’s something I don’t want to do, to play more counter-attacking, but I’m giving it serious thought. If I want to win 1-0 I think I can as I think it is one of the easiest things in football. It is not so difficult, as you don’t give players the chance to express themselves.”
It was Chelsea’s sixth defeat of the campaign and Mourinho looked back on the carelessness of the recent 3-2 reverse at Stoke City and the 1-0 defeat at Everton as he pondered how his team had left themselves open to a late sucker punch.
“They played very well. Once more the quality of football we produced was amazing. What we do when we have possession of the ball, the way we play, the way we create, the story repeats. It’s the same story of Stoke, of Everton and every match we’ve lost.
“We’ve never lost a match because we didn’t play or because the opponent was stronger than us, we lost every match because we produce, we don’t kill opponents, we give them life and every opponent that plays against us knows they can score a goal and change the true result.
“We play sometimes very well and have fantastic chances and don’t score. It’s the same story that repeats.”
Mourinho is irritated by comparisons with his first Chelsea side, which won the League Cup in two of his three full seasons in charge. But he feels that his present squad, despite their lack of killer instinct at both ends, are playing better football.
He added: “We played very well, that’s the only thing I can say. The way we build and create we are not behind that team people always like to compare [his previous Chelsea team], we are in front in terms of the quality of our game but football is about results, scoring goals and at this moment you see every game we don’t kill, we’re in trouble and sometimes we lose matches.
"It’s something I don’t want to do, to play more counter-attacking, but I’m giving it serious thought. If I want to win 1-0 I think I can as I think it is one of the easiest things in football. It is not so difficult, as you don’t give players the chance to express themselves.”
It was Chelsea’s sixth defeat of the campaign and Mourinho looked back on the carelessness of the recent 3-2 reverse at Stoke City and the 1-0 defeat at Everton as he pondered how his team had left themselves open to a late sucker punch.
“They played very well. Once more the quality of football we produced was amazing. What we do when we have possession of the ball, the way we play, the way we create, the story repeats. It’s the same story of Stoke, of Everton and every match we’ve lost.
“We’ve never lost a match because we didn’t play or because the opponent was stronger than us, we lost every match because we produce, we don’t kill opponents, we give them life and every opponent that plays against us knows they can score a goal and change the true result.
“We play sometimes very well and have fantastic chances and don’t score. It’s the same story that repeats.”
Mourinho is irritated by comparisons with his first Chelsea side, which won the League Cup in two of his three full seasons in charge. But he feels that his present squad, despite their lack of killer instinct at both ends, are playing better football.
He added: “We played very well, that’s the only thing I can say. The way we build and create we are not behind that team people always like to compare [his previous Chelsea team], we are in front in terms of the quality of our game but football is about results, scoring goals and at this moment you see every game we don’t kill, we’re in trouble and sometimes we lose matches.
