This season, the London team "Chelsea", who had to defend their title in the English Premier League, is starting to show better form as the season approaches its end, but they are still lagging behind the leaders by as much as 18 points.
One of the key players of "Chelsea" team, Branislav Ivanovic, admitted that the team had to go through a tough period and insists that it is unfair to blame only Jose Mourinho for poor results.
"During the cycle of failures, Jose Mourinho did not change our game. He did not give us instructions to play differently, everything was the same," said B. Ivanovic. "But football revolves around players, not coaches. It's 11 men against 11, and you have to be better than your opponents, but we weren't like that from the start of the season."
"Players were more responsible for this situation than the coach. Of course, it would be very difficult to change all 25 players of the team during the season. But if Abramovich had had this opportunity, I think he would have replaced the whole team. It's hard to say that one man is responsible for this situation," concluded the defender who temporarily took over the captain's duties from John Terry.
At the beginning of the season, "Chelsea" club had dropped to the 16th position in the Premier League, but three consecutive wins brought the "Blues" to the middle of the standings - 10th place.
