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| Bafetimbi Gomis scored a penalty in the 55th minute for the Swans |
JOSE MOURINHO prowled the touchline angrily and gave his medical team a nervous ticking off at the end as at least one of his nightmares came true in just 90 surprising minutes.
The Chelsea boss had warned that the so called lesser lights of the Premier League will upset his champions a lot more this season. And how right Swansea proved him yesterday.
Mourinho could easily have been on the end of a shock of day result last night. He has goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois to thank that he wasn't.
Given the two previous results the Chelsea boss thought he had taken no chances on this one, gambling on Diego Costa with a youthful new haircut and lingering doubts about his dodgy hamstring.
That didn'r seem to bother the combative Spaniard who, quite frankly, looked as fit as a fiddle at first. And, oh boy, he needed to be because battling Swansea showed scant respect for the champions before - or, indeed, after - Oscar fired Chelsea in front on 22 minutes.
In fact, with a masterful Jonjo Shelvey pulling the strings in midfield and Bafe Gomis proving a handful all afternoon, they frightened the life out of Mourinho and co.
Gary Monk probably wasn't a happy bunny at the way Oscar's modest free kick went unimpeded through the wall past a startled Lukasz Fabianski - especially after Gomis and Ki had both tested Courtois just before that.
He was, however, visibly delighted at Swansea's 28th minute equaliser - a deserved reward for shear dogged persistence by Ghana new boy Andrew Ayew and the impressive Gomis after Courtois had again seemed to deny both of them.
But the poor bloke had good reason to wonder if Lady Luck was a Chelsea fan two minutes later when Willian put Chelsea back in front with a deflected effort that the stranded Fabianski could do nothing about.
And when Courtios produced another super save soon afterwards to keep out Gylfi Sigurdsson and the influential Ki had to go off injured Swansea feelings of being hard done by looked increasingly justified.
They must have gone off at half time wondering how on earth they weren't in front rather than behind.
But if ever justice was seen to be done it happened six minutes after the break.
Gomis, who had terrorised both John Terry and Gary Cahill for the best part of 50 minutes, got away from them again and Courtois had little option but to stop him in his tracks.
It was an option that saw the keeper sent off and the ever so impressive Frenchman slot the resultant spot kick in the bottom corner of the net.
Mourinho protested, but even he must have conceded that was no more than Swansea deserved.
And to be honest it would have been a whole lot worse if substitute keeper Asmir Begovic hadn't produced a super instinctive save to stop Jefferson Montero scoring and Gomis hadn't had another 'goal' disallowed for offside.
Monk must have had a good reason for replacing his man of the match with his new £5million striker, Eder, with 10 minutes to go. But few of the rest of us could see it.
The guy was terrific - as were most of his team-mates.
Chelsea: Courtois; Ibramovich, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta; Fabregas (Zouma 76), Matic; Willian (Falcao 83), Oscar (Begovic 52) Hazard; Costa.
Swansea: Fabianski; Naughton, Fernandez, Williams, Taylor; Ki (Cork 41), Sigurdsson; Ayew, Shelvey, Montero (Routledge 71); Gomis (Eder 79)
Man Of The Match: Bafe Gomis. The Swansea striker made one and scored one and was the sort of handful John Terry in particular didn't relish at all.
Referee: Michael Oliver.
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