Mourinho slates first-half performance

Jose Mourinho called first-half display a “minus 1 out of 10” as Chelsea fight back to seal a draw at Newcastle

Chelsea boss Mourinho went on to praise his side’s second half display during today’s game where late goals from Ramires and Willian earned them a point at Newcastle after they had gone 2-0 down after 60 minutes thanks to goals from Ayoze Perez and Georginio Wijnaldum.

“It is a point,” Mourinho told Sky Sports News. “That’s what we got. Better than to lose but I’m never happy when I don’t win matches.”

“I have to try to understand why they can play so bad in one half and so well in the other. We were bad in every aspect of the game. Poor individual performances and it was impossible to be a competitive team.”

“We missed Costa, of course.”