Chelsea went down 3-1 against a confident Everton side at the Goodison Park in a crucial game week five encounter. Steven Naismith scored a brilliant hat-trick to outclass the defending champions.
The Toffees scored two goals in the beginning which pretty much sealed the fate of the game. The Chelsea defenders once again looked vulnerable in front of a mediocre Everton attack force. Nemanja Matic scored a screamer of a goal to reduce the margin but Naismith completed his feat in style by netting a late third goal.
After the match, Mourinho addressed the press and said: “We deserved better and played for a better result. It’s too heavy for the way the players started the game, finished the game and played during the game.
“Confidence is low, we’re a team with some doubts, about some lucky and unlucky incidents in each game, but I felt the players deserved a better result than we got.
“The biggest concern is that everything goes against us. We know we are making mistakes but with every mistake we are punished immediately. We lose a player for the first time, goal.
“One shot from outside the box, goal. After that it was a fantastic reaction. Eden Hazard had two fantastic chances with two shots, the ball hit the defender twice and when it looks like the ball was going in it goes for a corner.
“In the second half we had control, we changed and took risks. They defended and the first time they crossed the midfield line they scored another goal. Everything is going against us.
“The players feel that way. It’s the old story of the striker who, when things are going well, there is a cross and he scores with his elbow or knee. When things go wrong he hits a fantastic shot, the ball hits the bar and post and comes out. Everything is more difficult.”
Irrespective of a series of poor results, Jose Mourinho remained confident and believed that a couple of good matches will again restore the confidence in the side which missing currently.
The Portuguese added: “We need to win a couple of consecutive matches, we need the players to smile again, we need the strikers to score goals, we need the defenders to not make mistakes and be punished, we need confidence.
“Confidence is fundamental and at the moment everything is going against us. The players fight, play, try, like they did, but the reality is that at the moment it’s difficult for them. It’s not easy to play football with the confidence level low.”