Roy Hodgson
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I thought that we kept them at bay pretty well.
But if you ask me if they were clinical with the chances, the two strikes of Morata's were very clinical and strong strikes.
And then, of course, unfortunately, Pedro just got in front of our defender for that cross.
All goals are mistakes somewhere along the line.
But I don't think we were in any way...
battered by Chelsea today.
We knew it was going to be a very tough game and we gave it our best shot, but we've come out second best.
No, but you get the points that you get and we just have to keep going.
But I'm convinced that the way we play, the players we have, the determination that we show in all of the games, that things will turn around for us and the points will follow because to get points you need performances.
And once again today we weren't far from being able to stand here and say that was a good performance.
But of course it's always hard to make...
losing matches into good performances because people will think you're trying to pull wool over their eyes.
But we were playing a top team, a team with incredible talent, incredible confidence, and I thought that for large swathes of the game, we not only kept them at bay, but we asked a few questions of them as well.
No, no, I thought we pushed them very, very hard.
I thought we should have come in at nil-nil at half-time.
And if we had done, I think it would have been an even tougher second half for them, despite the fact we played for the last 20 minutes with 10 men.
But no, I'm obviously proud of the team's performance.
We worked very, very hard and I thought that we gave them enough problems to deal with.
And I think we can consider ourselves a bit unlucky to have lost the game by two goals to nil.
What do you want to say to it?