Jose Mourinho made sure that everyone who was to blame for the 2-1 defeat to Crystal Palace was made known. Except, that while not criticising individual players, he had a less that kind word for referee Craig Pawson, who he feels should have given the Blues an early penalty.
"First of all I want to say Palace came with everything," he said.
"Their team and players were ready. They came with a fantastic spirit and they were lucky but deserved their luck. They fought a lot for it.
"Also my team deserved more, maybe not to win it, but also not to lose it."
Then Mourinho returned to a familiar theme of a poor referee's performance.
"The referee made a big mistake - there was a clear penalty with the result at 0-0, and obviously it influenced the result."
Mourinho would not comment on the challenge by Sako on Costa in the second half, preferring to focus on the 16th minute when Conor Wickham pulled Kurt Zouma's shirt in the Eagles' penalty area.
"I don't want to comment on that as I did not see it, but I'm speaking about the one with Zouma, that I watched at half-time in the dressing room. It looked clear when I saw it on the pitch in realtime. On TV, it it a clear penalty."
Mourinho, while frustrated they did not get a goal-scoring chance with the penalty is dismissive of chances created that don't result in goals.
"It's about goals you score,"he said.
"The number of chances created reflects how you are playing, but it's not enough just to create chances, you have to score. And we got only one goal."
Mourinho was also unhappy about individual and the overall performance.
"I'm not happy," he said.
"A performance is a collective effort from all the players at the same time.
"That's the way we work during the week, to perform collectively. And obviously if it's a collective effort you need individual performances. At this level, when the opponents are so good, well organised and with nothing to lose, when you are up against that, you need people to,perform. I cannot say I had 11 players perform at the same time. To be fair, two or three, were far from good. I blame myself for not changing him and keeping him on for 90 minutes. Mourinho would another name the player.
"But when I made my third change I realised I needed a fourth and I'm not allowed a fourth", he added.
Mourinho feels that the defeat won't prompt any knee-jerk reaction into the transfer market, but he made a veiled criticism of the club for not getting the players he identified as long ago as April.
"I hope not," he said. I don't like that (knee-jerk reaction to a defeat). I gave the club the report of the season's projection on April 21st. I don't think now, on August 29th that I'm going now to them to say I want this player or that one. No, we have to do better, me and the players."
While the Blues have only taken four points from four games, he is not conceding that they are out of the title race.
"No, we have eight points less than the leader," he said.
"In another league, I'd say that the title was over, but in this league it's not game over. In one month last season, we lost a seven point lead to Manchester City. On January we were in the same points with them. So nobody can tell me that on January 1, we won't have recovered the points deficit.
"This is the Premier League and it's getting more difficult. I said before the season started that the likes of Swansea and Palace with their investments, they will get better and better and close the distance to others, but we have had a bad start. It's a very bad start."
Mourinho would not be drawn on individual performances, especially Branislav Ivanovic, who has had a shaky start by his standards.
"I'm not going to analyse individual form or performances," he said. "I can do that. But I do not. also I would not blame the loss of John Terry, who was suspended.
"Cahill and Zouma had great stability and played well. They had no problems overall. It could have been a good excuse for me (to blame the loss of Terry) but, no they payed well.
"Azpilicueta was substituted not because he played badly," said Mourinho.
"I took him off, because I wanted to give more depth in the side. We played without a left-back with Kenedy going forward. He has a good personality with high-risk football, which was needed at that time. He was responsible for the improvement of the team, for the reaction to their first goal."
The next game is a giant Everton at Goodison Park in two weeks' time and Mourinho feel impotent that he cannot do anything to arrest their current poor form.
"I do not know what can happen in the next 15 days," he said. "Every player goes out with the national team and I stay at Cobham with four players. I can't work, I can't improve.
At this moment, I can't do anything to improve my team. But if a player is not performing, there are two ways to look at it. One way is that I wait and trust the player to get better. You wait and wait. Maybe it comes, maybe not.
"Or, even trusting the player, the other way is to change them."
Radamel Falcao scored his first goal for the Blues following his loan spell from Monaco. Was Mourinho happy about that?
"It's a goal that means nothing," said Mourinho. "Not even a point does it mean. But for his personal confidence, I think while it means nothing for the team, it is good for his confidence.
After the goal, we are not happy with 1-1, you could see his happiness as he has come through a difficult period. It's nice for him, but no more than that."
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