The Germans were severely by injury and reeling from their
worst Bundesliga start in more than 40 years. It appeared Chelsea would
run amok after a scintillating start, with Eden Hazard to the fore.
Instead Chelsea failed to take their chances, with Didier Drogba among
those culpable, and Mourinho was left to rue defensive lapses as Schalke
equalised and held on for a point. It appeared Huntelaar had fouled
Fabregas in the build-up to the goal - the Spain midfielder had appeared
to have tackled Max Meyer late in the move which led to his goal - but
Mourinho had no complaints.
"From my I can't say that (it was a foul)," Mourinho
added. "They scored 1-1 in a counter-attack situation. We made two
mistakes. One was not to make a foul immediately when they recovered the
ball and we had a chance for that.
"The other one was the fact I told my players 20 times Draxler
wants to come inside for his right foot and in a situation inside the
box we have to press his right foot. It was also a mistake in the box.
After that situation only one team tried to win and only one team had so
many chances to win the game in a short period of time.
"In the last 15 minutes Remy could score, John Terry could score,
Hazard could score. We had so many great situations. Again, that's
football. To defend like they did is also football. A good point for
them. Not a fantastic point for us, but a point."
Drogba deputised for Costa on his first Champions League appearance
for Chelsea since scoring the decisive penalty in the 2012 European Cup
win. The C?te d'Ivoire striker was unable to convert passes from
Willian and Hazard, but Mourinho refused to be critical of the
36-year-old.
"He had a positive game," Mourinho said. "I'm not disappointed with
the striker because of one inch, he scores a goal or doesn't score a
goal. I am happy with what he did. If he scores that goal in this moment
we're speaking about 2-0, not 1-1.
"We had very good chances to score the 2-0 and we didn't. After the
1-1 we had a fantastic reaction and chances to win the game, but that's
football, that's Champions , that's normal.
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