Villa-Boas ready for rumours

by Setanta Staff , 22 February 2012 Chelsea

Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas expects speculation over his future to mount following the 3-1 defeat at Napoli.


Chelsea's Champions League hopes are now hanging by a thread after Napoli came from a goal behind to pick up the win and leave the Blues with an uphill battle going into the second leg at Stamford Bridge.

Villas-Boas is clinging to the away goal that Juan Mata bagged as hope, but the way Chelsea have been defending it will be difficult to stop the Italians from getting a goal themselves.

The Chelsea boss needed a positive result to ease the pressure but now there are growing calls for him to be axed.

"Speculation will continue as the results don't happen," he summed up after the game.

The Portuguese also admitted that Chelsea continue to shoot themselves in the foot as mistakes at the back cost them once again, in particular with Napoli's third goal.

"We have to solve these mistakes at the back," he added. "We need this concentration right and this efficiency right, for sure. At the moment, without John, a very important player for the team, we have suffered a lot of goals recently."

With Terry expected to be out of action for another six weeks there is a very real chance he could have played his last game under the leadership of Villas-Boas as the pressure mounts.

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Team P W D L +/- PTS
1.
Man City
38
28
5
5
64
89
2.
Man Utd
38
28
5
5
56
89
3.
Arsenal
38
21
7
10
25
70
4.
Tottenham
38
20
9
9
25
69
5.
Newcastle
38
19
8
11
5
65
6.
Chelsea
38
18
10
10
19
64
7.
Everton
38
15
11
12
10
56
8.
Liverpool
38
14
10
14
7
52
9.
Fulham
38
14
10
14
-3
52
10.
West Brom
38
13
8
17
-7
47
11.
Swansea
38
12
11
15
-7
47
12.
Norwich
38
12
11
15
-14
47
13.
Sunderland
38
11
12
15
-1
45
14.
Stoke
38
11
12
15
-17
45
15.
Wigan
38
11
10
17
-20
43
16.
Aston Villa
38
7
17
14
-16
38
17.
QPR
38
10
7
21
-23
37
18.
Bolton
38
10
6
22
-31
36
19.
Blackburn
38
8
7
23
-30
31
20.
Wolverhampton
38
5
10
23
-43
25
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