Chelsea legend reveals exactly what Jose Mourinho needs to do to save his job

Jose Mourinho is under more pressure than he ever has been at Chelsea

CHELSEA need to stick with Jose Mourinho through a ’nightmare’ period according to former player Pat Nevin.

 

In all competitions Mourinho’s side already have nine defeats this season, the latest a 1-0 loss at Stoke City in the Premier League, without their manager on the sideline after receiving a stadium ban.

However, Nevin has been encouraged by some of the more recent performances, and has an idea of how to sort out the results.

“There have been posts hit, chances missed, penalty opportunities squandered along with a few one-on-ones and still we can’t get over the line,” said Nevin in his column for the Chelsea website.

 

“I could accept this if it was in a weird sort of dream, but it isn’t, though it sometimes feels like a real-life living nightmare.

“It was generally accepted that many parts of the play were pretty decent against Stoke at the weekend. 

“Obviously having more possession of the ball helped but in the simplest terms we didn’t convert enough good possession into goals, just as we didn’t the previous Capital One Cup game against Mark Hughes’s side.

 

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“Maybe one thing did however jump out from the games

“I was analysing the match for Irish television station Setanta in Dublin and I couldn’t help noticing that against Stoke, like Kiev beforehand, we had loads of possession in the final third, got into great positions and even had superb cutbacks but not enough players in the danger area to convert those chances. 

“I finished the show on Saturday at 10pm and trudged back to my hotel room and lo and behold, Alan Shearer said precisely the same thing on Match of the Day. 

“If we both spotted it and many of you have then I am sure the boss is already working on it.”

 

With a two-week break between the Stoke game and Chelsea’s next fixture - at home to struggling Norwich - Mourinho is expected to be working hard on the Cobham training ground to restore some shape and defensive solidarity to his team.

The problems have been as bad at the front as they have at the back - the usually lethal Diego Costa 1,375 minutes without a Premier League goal while only Newcastle and Sunderland have conceded more.

But again Nevin is convinced the light is there at the end of the tunnel, if only Chelsea can see it.

“Jose and the team have to look to the present and the future,” Nevin said. 

“The positives are that there has been some improvement but the negatives are still very visible. 

“I suspect the boss has a good handle on precisely what they are now; the problem is finding the answers and finding them soon.”