Jose Mourinho's face was a picture of frustration on Saturday after his inconsistent Chelsea team suffered their first league defeat by Stoke City for 38 years with a 3-2 reverse.
"We played amazingly well at the beginning of the game. It was like Sunderland," a glum-looking Mourinho told reporters, referring to Wednesday's thrilling 4-3 league victory.
"After half an hour we should have been winning 3-0 or 4-0 and we weren't. Normally you kill the game but we didn't."
Germany forward Andre Schuerrle had given the Londoners the lead with a low, angled left-foot drive from the edge of the penalty area in the 10th minute.
Chelsea continued to dominate and should have put the game out of reach before Stoke's Peter Crouch sparked a dramatic turnaround with an equaliser out of the blue in the 42nd minute.
Schuerrle grabbed his second goal of the game after the break but by then lowly Stoke were a different proposition and they secured a shock Premier League victory thanks to efforts from substitute Stephen Ireland and Oussama Assaidi.
"The three players behind the striker again played very well but we didn't score enough goals," added Mourinho. "On top of that we made defensive mistakes and conceded.
"If you don't score a lot of goals but you don't make defensive mistakes you can win with just one goal."
Schuerrle, Juan Mata and Eden Hazard were the three men providing the bullets for striker Fernando Torres on Saturday but the Spaniard never appeared likely to pull the trigger and was replaced by Demba Ba in the 59th minute.
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