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"We always knew that anything we would have got from Stamford Bridge will be a bonus, but the first three goals were just absolutely shambolic!
"You shouldn't give any team an easy start, but to give a team of Chelsea's quality some cheap goals, you are then going to be up against it. The first three goals were avoidable and you can't give away soft goals at this level and get away with it.
"I have said before when you come to a place like this you want to keep it tight, and you don't want to give goals away. We keep getting punished for mistakes we shouldn't be making.
"Confidence is low and we've had a real tough run of fixtures, but we cannot keep clean sheets at the moment, and we keep conceding from set pieces as well.
"But we can't keep on feeling sorry for ourselves, and we need to get five or six wins from somewhere between now and the end of the season.
"We are struggling at the moment, but we're not the first team to do so, and we won't be the last but I believe we have enough.
"If we get the right players in that I want in the current trasnfer window, then we will have enough to stay up."
Jose Mourinho
"When you are winning matches, the next step is to win with a great performance. When you are not winning matches, the next step is to win. Today was about winning.
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"In the second half, the good thing was that instead of being scared of the pressure of winning 1-0 and being afraid of conceding a late goal, the team went for more. They went to kill the game and when the second and third goals came, the game is over.
"Then the players could play - how do you say? - breathing. They were comfortable, nice, enjoying, with confidence back, doing things on the pitch that they do not do when they have no confidence and are under pressure.
"In the last two years we are a winning club. Winning is part of our life. So when you don't win matches consecutively, even not losing, it's normal that the club is not such a happy club. If everybody within the club gives the maximum contribution, I think we can have a good future, a good end of season.
"On Monday I have a 50 million pound player and we don't have to pay to have him. I'm serious.
"He's ready to play, the best goalkeeper in the world is ready to play. After three months without him, after three months where Hilario did very, very well and Carlo, when he was playing gave also a good contribution, Petr Cech is back. I'm not saying he plays but he is ready to play football again.
"I think I have to work with what I have - it's a challenge. For example, it's a big challenge for me to improve the defensive line without central defenders."
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