Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has admitted he may have to abandon Chelsea’s ‘all out attack’ style of play in favour of improving the team’s defensive record.
The Blues have struggled to finish off teams this season due to their misfiring strikers, an issue that arose again after they were dumped out of the Capital One Cup quarter-finals by Premier League strugglers Sunderland.
Mourinho’s men led by a single goal as they approached the final five minutes of normal time thanks to Lee Cattermole’s own goal early in the second-half.
But with minutes left on the clock, Black Cats forward Fabio Borini netted to take the game into extra-time, with South Korean international Ki Sung-Yueng scoring late into the additional half hour to book Sunderland’s place in the final-four.
Mourinho refused to blame his players for the defeat, but admitted their failure to kill off Gus Poyet's side had left him seriously considering adopting a more conservative approach, despite previously stating he would not change their attacking style.
"Maybe the way to rectify it is not to concede goals,” said the Blues boss.
"Maybe the way is to have a different approach and not to concede goals because when you don't score enough goals, when you are a very offensive team and you don't score enough goals to win matches, maybe the right approach is to be more defensive, concede fewer goals and win matches with the few goals we score.
"But that's not what I want because that's not what we have in mind in the building up of this team. We want this team to play the way we are playing, we want this team to have evolution, but based on the football we are playing at the moment.
"We need to score goals to finish opponents because we feel very comfortable on the pitch. The possession of the ball becomes easy, the creation becomes easy.
"We had big chances to score goals against Sunderland, but we didn't score.
The Portuguese coach added: "In the Premier League, I haven't lost one single game because the opponent was better than us.
“I lost in the Champions League - Basle played better than us in a game where we produced absolutely nothing and we were punished in the last minute.
"Every other game - here, Stoke, Newcastle, Everton - every game we have lost, every game, it's the same story: chances and chances and football and football and not enough goals."
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