Jose slams slack champions
24 Aug 2006 - 08:21:29
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho had no complaints after seeing his side suffer an early blow to their hopes of a third straight Premiership title with a 2-1 defeat at Middlesbrough.
Boro scored twice in the final ten minutes at the Riverside to snatch victory, with Mourinho accepting that his side had not deserved anything from the game.
He said: "I am not disappointed. I am disappointed when I deserve to win and do not win. That is when I am disappointed.
"When I do not win but do not deserve to win, I am not disappointed.
"We cannot blame referees, we cannot blame the opponents, we cannot blame bad luck. We have to blame our own performance. That is why I am not disappointed.
"We could have scored a second goal when Frank Lampard hit the post, we could have scored a second goal before they scored their second goal.
"But overall, their attitude was much stronger than ours and I think we did not deserve more.
"The point is, we know why we were champions twice, we have to know.
"I know and I think the players also know why and it was not with this attitude, that's for sure."