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[iceboy 992]

And the Portuguese opted to make his points in typically flamboyant style as he hit back at the Arsenal fans' accusation his side had set out merely to defend on Monday.

Mourinho said: "They called us boring - but I think boring is a team that plays at home and cannot score a goal. That's boring!

"Because you go to your stadium and you fill your stadium, in weather like we had on Monday, to see victories.

"There is not a home fan in any club in the world who goes to the stadium and expects his team not to score or win. If any team was boring, they were boring because Petr Cech made zero saves."

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chelseas-jose-mourinho-brands-arsenal-2958835#ixzz2oWrldfim

[The Skipper 20,593]

If most of those games were at home you would be right. While we should have done better the general rule is to beat the home teams and get what you can away. So far we have played one big team at home, and won.

We'll see at the end of the season, but I really think a few more points were up for grabs here and we failed in that aspect. I'm not saying I expect us to win those games in general but the response was more towards us being impressive in top 6/top 8 games when that is not true at all. We've been average.

[The Skipper 20,593]

The more I read the more I'm convinced even people who say they don't have much expectations about this team they do. Some say they don't expect results, titles and the end product right now, but they want us to win everything. They simply want us to win against the best 6 sides away and home as if it were that easy...

Given how unbalanced and how many deficiencies we do have in some areas I'm happily satisfied with our position at the table and overall results. There's a lot of improvement to be done in the team's football and Mourinho has made a few assessment mistakes imo and I hope he finally acknowledges we need better strikers and more quality in the midfield, but it still surprises me how impatient people really are despite everything. I can't for the life of me complain about a point away at arsenal bc that one point can make a difference in such a close league... why risk losing one point given our recent record of messing up in the end lately? How many in the top 6 beat arsenal at Emirates? How many even beat any top 6 teams away?

It's all ifs bc no one knows what would have happened if he kept hazard for example. Why are people so sure we would have scored in 20 minutes when we didn't in 70?

How are they keeping it realistic if they don't properly give the team time and have no patience? We aren't the end product yet, so there's no reason for Mourinho to take risks with a team that proved if anything it isn't reliable yet. I'll take that one point and Mourinho's supposedly coward approach, if that's how they call it.

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Yeah, we aren't the end product yet, I obviously understand that completely, and I understand that it takes a season or two for a project to really come to fruition. I have the patience for that. Heck, I can even wait 3 seasons for that as long as things are moving on in the right direction; but my main gripe is that it's been half a season now and it still looks like we don't have the foundations in place for what we are trying to do (in regards to our playing style) and it's not looking too promising so far. It doesn't look like we are trying to build an identity yet - it just looks like we're trying to grind out games for now, mis-utilising the players we have at disposal (the players we have and the supposed identity we're trying to build require a more universalism approach than specialist approach in my opinion, and I've seen a lot more of the former). Yeah, we're missing a few players here and there but that still doesn't really excuse it.

And no, I am not 'not happy' that we 'only' got a point at the Emirates, it's just people are overstating how amazing of a result it is IMO. I didn't expect us to go out guns blazing against the Gunners at all, I really liked Mourinho's (initial) approach to the game considering our recent performances and in that sense it was a decent result but it wasn't superb or amazing. Superb or amazing would've been beating them.

[Rmpr 8,977]

Should have gone for the win!

[Strike 6,960]

It's all ifs bc no one knows what would have happened if he kept hazard for example. Why are people so sure we would have scored in 20 minutes when we didn't in 70?

How are they keeping it realistic if they don't properly give the team time and have no patience? We aren't the end product yet, so there's no reason for Mourinho to take risks with a team that proved if anything it isn't reliable yet. I'll take that one point and Mourinho's supposedly coward approach, if that's how they call it.

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Ofcourse we don't know but it doesn't justify the decision to take him off! And I doubt anyone was saying Mourinho should take risks away at Arsenal but the substitutes did not have any impact. Hazard and Willian both off meant that the attack was disjointed for the last few minutes. Don't mean that he should have thrown on a striker and gone gung-ho for it. A point at Arsenal is good obviously and the performance was also fine but I didn't agree with Jose's subs in the game.