adminCHELSEA manager Jose Mourinho blamed missed chances for their first Premier League defeat of the season at Everton.
Steven Naismith’s goal in first-half stoppage time gave Everton boss Roberto Martinez his first league win since succeeding David Moyes.“If you don’t score a goal what you create means nothing. It is a simple story,” said Mourinho.
“You have to put the ball in the net. Artistic football without goals is no good. We didn’t have killer instinct.”
Chelsea gave a debut to new striker Samuel Eto’o, but he was one of the culprits, along with another summer arrival, Andre Schurrle.
A disappointed Mourinho said: “You can’t speak about sharpness. I don’t think it is a question of sharpness.
“The ball Schurrle passed to Eto’o in the first half was a slow pass. If it was a fast pass, Eto’o scores with an open goal but Gareth Barry got back.
“These kinds of details are not about sharpness of players.”
Mourinho was also unhappy with the build-up to Naismith’s winner, with Ashley Cole conceding a needless free-kick and Everton gaining possession after goalkeeper Petr Cech rolled the ball out.
“We are not talking about young kids,” added Mourinho, who returned to manage Chelsea in June.
“We didn’t deserve to lose because we were the best team, because we played the best football, dominated the whole game, because we had 21 shots and we risked everything we could. In that sense it is fair to say we deserved to win the game.
“The other way to look at it is that a team that has 21 shots, some of them easy shots and easy situations to score and then don’t score and makes a mistake in the last minute of the first half – maybe with that I should say we deserve to lose.”
Meanwhile, Gareth Bale had a bitter-sweet start to his Real Madrid career when the world’s most expensive player scored on debut but Real dropped their first points of the La Liga campaign in a 2-2 draw at promoted Villarreal on Saturday. The Wales winger, who joined from Tottenham Hotspur for a record fee of €100 million earlier this month, struck in the 38th minute at the Madrigal to make it 1-1 after Cani had put the home side ahead in the 21st.
Playing in a three-pronged attack with Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema, Bale sped into the area and clipped a Dani Carvajal cross into the net with his right foot before being mobbed by his new teammates.
The 24-year-old, whose pre-season training was disrupted by the protracted negotiations over his move, was replaced by Angel Di Maria on the hour.
Ronaldo, the €94-million man who Bale succeeded as the most valuable player in soccer, netted a bizarre goal to put Real ahead in the 64th minute when his own shot cannoned back off a defender onto his leg and ricocheted into the net.
It was hard on an impressive Villarreal side, who were denied by a string of brilliant saves from Diego Lopez, but they were level in the 70th minute when Giovani Dos Santos, another former Tottenham player, lashed in a shot that crept into the net off the Real keeper.
The draw spoiled Real’s perfect start to the season and they have 10 points from four matches, the same as Villarreal and two behind champions Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.
Barca had Alexis Sanchez to thank for maintaining their winning start after he came off the bench to score in the fourth minute of added time and snatch a 3-2 victory at home to Sevilla earlier on Saturday.
Barca have yet to settle under new coach Gerardo Martino and it was another unconvincing performance at the Nou Camp as they let slip a two-goal lead and were seconds away from dropping their first points of the campaign. –Supersport.
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