Jose Mourinho Admits Big Mistake
Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea had the opportunity to temporarily go top of the league on Boxing Day, if they had taken advantage of their early kick off. This would have surely put the pressure on Manchester United who played Wigan at 3pm.
Despite Drogba’s two goals, Chelsea were pegged back twice, the equalising goal coming from a defensive error, as Ashley Cole carelessly kicked the ball against Essien, which then bounced in to the back of the net.
Manchester United are now four points clear at the top, with Chelsea clearly struggling at the back without Petr Cech and John Terry. In the three games Chelsea have been without JT, they have conceded six goals. In the seventeen games before Terry’s injury, they had conceded just nine.
Jose Mourinho has today explained what is going wrong with Chelsea at the moment. “To lose Petr and John at the same time is a very difficult problem to solve, especially in a squad without more central defenders,” he explained. “We sold William Gallas and Robert Huth in the summer. We don’t have enough cover so at this moment in time we are having problems. Normally for Chelsea three consecutive matches would mean three clean sheets but at this moment in three consecutive matches we have conceded six goals. So for us to win matches right now we need to score three times. Sometimes we’ll do it, sometimes we won’t.”
Despite Roman Abromovich’s open cheque book, Mourinho has sold off players before buying their replacement. Despite having a great player available for left back in Wayne Bridge, they sold one of the best centre backs in the World, Gallas, to gain another left back, Ashley Cole. They sold off another centre back, Robert Huth, and instead of buying a replacement, they brought in right back Boulahrouz.
Has Jose Mourinho made a mistake in his transfer dealings this summer? Can he get himself out of trouble this January?
Although Boulahrouz has been used at right back he is essentially a central defender.
Well, yes, he is a central defender. And your point? He didn’t even make the bench against Reading. There’s nothing wrong with him, and yet Mourinho has said he’s considered Drogba at the back, and would do if it wasn’t for the fact that his goals are the only reason we’re in touch with United.
Fact is, with Terry absent and Cech still injured, we’re conceding more. Any idiot can see that.
John Terry is Chelsea’s defence and it was one of the stupidest moves in the history of football to get rid of Gallas, because quite frankly, technically, he was chelsea’s best defender…
If it wasn’t for Terry, Trinidad and Tobago would have drawn or defeated England in the last World Cup.
Without the experience of Gallas and Terry Chelsea will keep trailing Manchester.
I would really like to see a toe to toe points battle though, just for the fun of it.
“Manchester United have their assists and goals spread out across the team, whereas Chelsea seem to have a few players who contribute more heavily. ”
Another interesting Chelsea item from Scott : Do Chelsea Really Have “strength in depth”?
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