Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has rejected the label that his team are boring following their 0-0 draw with Arsenal on Sunday, according to reports from the Mirror.
Gunners fans at the Emirates were singing ‘Boring, boring Chelsea’ as the Blues held out for a stalemate, but Mourinho has hit back by insisting that 10 years without a title for Arsenal is what’s boring.
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He said: “You know, boring I think is ten years without a title. That’s very boring.
“You support the club and you’re waiting, waiting, waiting for so many years without a Premier League title, so that’s very boring. But maybe they aren’t singing to us.
“Maybe, when you want to win a game and you’re at home and you take No9 off, maybe the home fans want to see Welbeck and Giroud up front. We had a very good experience.
“The boring team is the second team with more goals in the Premier League, the best team with the best goal difference. Only Manchester City have scored more goals than us.”
The Portuguese manager also pointed to his lack of strikers as a reason for his tactical setup, which saw the Blues start the game with four defenders and six midfielders.
“So I think we scored a lot of goals and, in a period where we don’t have Diego Costa or Loic Remy and we have only one striker, we need to work in a way where he can help us with all the matches we are having.
“We changed a bit our dynamic and we are not scoring so many goals as before. But, even so, we are the second team with more goals.”
Mourinho also believed that his side should have been awarded a penalty when Arsenal goalkeeper David Ospina took out Oscar in the area, with the Brazilian required to go to a hospital with a concussion.
The result pushed Chelsea even closer to the league title as they lead second place Manchester City by ten points, and will only need six more out of their remaining five fixtures to mathematically become champions.
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