When we lose, I am the responsible (one),” said Mourinho : Chelsea 1- 2 Basel

Chelsea opened their Champions League account with a loss to FC Basel on Wednesday night, a result that shocked much of the football world.  "I'm not in shock because I know football is a game and sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. When you go into a game, you think you are going to win every game, but the reality is sometimes you win sometimes you lose.

"I'm not in shock. I'm not happy with the result. Instead of getting one step in front in the direction of qualification, we took one step back, but we have five matches to play in the group phase, and in these matches we have to finish in the top two."
 “When we lose, I am the responsible (one),” said Mourinho, who did not see onlooking Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich in the immediate aftermath of the defeat.
“We lost three points that we must get somewhere. We must get them, (in) Basle, or Schalke, or Bucharest, or all of them or some of them.
“Normally you have to win the matches at home and get a few points away.
“Now we must win six points at home, Schalke and Steaua, but we have also to win points away. Probably we have to go to win at Basle to compensate for the defeat today.
“But the objective of finishing in the top two in the group phase and to go to the next stage of the Champions League is an objective that is not lost, far from it.
“It’s an objective we’re going to fight for and it’s an objective that I believe very, very much that we’re going to achieve.”

“The second goal is the kind of goal that is very difficult to accept,” Mourinho said.
“We work very much on the organisation in defensive set-pieces and the header is in a position where we have two players defending that zone, plus the man that was marking Streller.
“Three players make a mistake and we were punished because of that.”
Mourinho felt his side were fortunate to take an interval lead through Oscar’s well-worked strike and crumbled when Salah struck 19 minutes from time.
“When the first negative moment arrives, which is the equaliser, the team shakes a little bit,” Mourinho said.
Mourinho has placed emphasis on youth, even though his team has enormous experience, including Eto’o, who was ineffective.
“When you are three, two and a half years in a place that doesn’t motivate you, that you are out of the big stage, maybe you are there not for the right reasons, and you lose the hunger, the appetite,” Mourinho said.
“Now he (Eto’o) has that back, he has that motivation, he wants to succeed, he wants to play, he’s happy to be at this level. The sharpness, that click to score, we have to wait. But he’s a great player and he will score goals.”

Jose Mourinho used the phrase "young beautiful eggs that need a mum" to describe some of the members of his squad in yesterday's press conference and the commentator after the match was sure to bring it up.  Speaking with the Portuguese manager after the match, Sky Sports' commentator asked Mourinho if he ended up being the one with one with egg on his face. Mourinho looked a bit uneasy in the interview. His side took a 1-0 lead over Basel but gave up two goals that resulted in the shock loss. Still with plenty of matches left to be played and won, Mourinho and his men will have to really buckle down if they expect to get out of their group and into the knockout stages.  The loss is Mourinho's third in competitive play since his return to Chelsea, his first coming against Bayern Munich, his second against Everton, and this third against FC Basel.