Blues will right Basel wrongs, insists Mikel
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Chelsea will right the wrongs of back-to-back defeats, insists John Obi Mikel
John Obi Mikel insists Chelsea players will be doing all they can to right the wrongs of the past week.
The Blues have endured a miserable few days, losing their first Premier League game on Saturday at Everton, before suffering their first home Champions League defeat in 10 years, when they lost to Basel on Wednesday night.
But with the west London derby against Fulham tomorrow, before a Capital One Cup match at Swindon on Tuesday and a clash with rivals Spurs next Saturday, Mikel says he and his team-mates need to buck up their ideas.
With the kind of players we have, with the calibre of players we have here, I dont think we should be afraid of anyone, he said.
But if we play the way we did against Basel, we have a chance of losing to anyone we play.
We have to go back to training now and look at the things we have done wrong and try to put it right.
And the 26-year-old midfielder says the Blues are aware of where they went wrong on Wednesday night.
Its disappointing. Its really, really bad. I mean, its a very bad result for us. We knew the kind of team we were playing against, Mikel added.
We knew how good they are on the ball and what they can do when they have the ball.
The manager spoke about how we had to put them under pressure from the first half, the first minute, and then they dont have a chance to win here.
But we didnt do that, its very disappointing. And its very disappointing to our fans, the way we lost the game. Coming from another defeat at Everton, we wanted to use this game to put things right but we didnt.
Individually we didnt turn up. Next game we have to put things right and put ourselves in the position of qualifying from this group.
John Obi Mikel insists Chelsea players will be doing all they can to right the wrongs of the past week.
The Blues have endured a miserable few days, losing their first Premier League game on Saturday at Everton, before suffering their first home Champions League defeat in 10 years, when they lost to Basel on Wednesday night.
But with the west London derby against Fulham tomorrow, before a Capital One Cup match at Swindon on Tuesday and a clash with rivals Spurs next Saturday, Mikel says he and his team-mates need to buck up their ideas.
With the kind of players we have, with the calibre of players we have here, I dont think we should be afraid of anyone, he said.
But if we play the way we did against Basel, we have a chance of losing to anyone we play.
We have to go back to training now and look at the things we have done wrong and try to put it right.
And the 26-year-old midfielder says the Blues are aware of where they went wrong on Wednesday night.
Its disappointing. Its really, really bad. I mean, its a very bad result for us. We knew the kind of team we were playing against, Mikel added.
We knew how good they are on the ball and what they can do when they have the ball.
The manager spoke about how we had to put them under pressure from the first half, the first minute, and then they dont have a chance to win here.
But we didnt do that, its very disappointing. And its very disappointing to our fans, the way we lost the game. Coming from another defeat at Everton, we wanted to use this game to put things right but we didnt.
Individually we didnt turn up. Next game we have to put things right and put ourselves in the position of qualifying from this group.
