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Chelsea’s title hopes still alive: Mourinho
London: With Chelsea going through a nightmarish start to the season, manager Jose Mourinho says his club’s title hopes would already be gone if they were playing in some other league.
Crystal Palace beat the defending English Premier League champions (EPL) 2-1 at Stamford Bridge on Saturday which means Chelsea are now eight points adrift of leaders Manchester City after four outings each.
“Four points in four matches is a very bad start, in another league I would say game over. In the Premier League I don’t say game over,” Mourinho was quoted as saying by bbc.com.
“We have eight points less than the leader. This is the Premier League and I think it’s getting more difficult than before. Two or three far from good,” he said.
Goals from Bakary Sako and Joel Ward meant Chelsea suffered only their second defeat in Mourinho’s 100 EPL games at home in charge at Chelsea.
Colombian forward Radamel Falcao restored parity for Chelsea, but a lapse of concentration at the back led to Palace finding the winner.
The Blues boss refused to speak on individual performances, but said some players did not put their best foot forward.
“I’m not happy. I cannot say that I had 11 players performing at the same time,” he said.
“Two or three of them, their individual performance was far from good.”
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.
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