Everton 1-3

Independent:

Steven Naismith scores perfect hat-trick as Blues fall to yet another awful defeat at Goodison Park
 
Everton 3 Chelsea 1
Simon Hart  

This was billed as the day that Chelsea were reacquainted with John Stones, the one that got away, yet for Jose Mourinho and his troubled players it ended up being about a season threatening to slip away.

In falling to their third defeat in five League games here, Chelsea looked as far removed as imaginable from the side that won 6-3 at Goodison Park in the early days of last season to underline their title credentials. They are leaking goals and they lack a cutting edge in attack, and a hungrier-looking Everton side took full advantage as Steven Naismith struck a superb hat-trick. “Going down” chanted a gleeful Glwadys Street and while it would be wrong to write off the London side just yet, Chelsea’s problems were writ large.
Not since Blackburn in 1995 have the defending champions managed only four points from their opening five matches and while they had plenty of possession – 62 per cent – they did not carry enough threat.  Defensively, the introduction of John Obi Mikel to provide extra cover for a central defence of Terry and Kurt Zouma made no difference and the result was back-to-back League defeats for Chelsea for only the second time under Mourinho.
“The biggest concern is that everything goes against us,” said the Portuguese. “We know we are making mistakes but for every mistake we are punished immediately.”
That was certainly the case with the opening goal, scored by a player, Naismith, who was only on the pitch because of an early injury to Muhamed Besic. Neither Nemanja Matic nor Mikel followed him into the box after he had pulled away from them and released Brendan Galloway down the left. When the young left-back drilled a cross across the six-yard box, Naismith was free to meet it with a bullet header. Steven Naismith celebrates scoring for Everton Steven Naismith celebrates scoring the opening goal for Everton 
Amid all the talk about Everton resisting Chelsea’s three bids for Stones in the summer, they also rejected a deadline-day £8m bid from Norwich for Naismith and yesterday the wisdom of that decision was underlined. The spiky Scot is a tireless team player with a knack of scoring in the big games.
It was on this weekend two years ago that his goal against Chelsea gave Roberto Martinez his first win as Everton manager and yesterday he was at it again, adding a second goal five minutes after the first.  Naismith fires in an long-range effort past Asmir Begovic 
Arouna Koné, Romelu Lukaku and Ross Barkley combined to work the ball across the pitch and Naismith picked it up in the inside-left channel and an arrowed a low shot across Asmir Begovic from 25 yards. It was a terrific strike, although Mourinho cannot have enjoyed the sight of Branislav Ivanovic standing off and turning his back to the ball.
Chelsea had a lifeline when Matic picked up the ball 30 yards out and unleashed a superb shot high to Tim Howard’s right. Mourinho described Chelsea’s ensuing spell of pressure as a “fantastic reaction” yet Terry headed over and Eden Hazard’s deflected shot whistled wide. It does not help Chelsea that Diego Costa looked half the player who had bullied Everton’s defence last August.  Nemanja Matic scored with a brilliant strike to bring Chelsea back into the game 
To rub salt in the wound, Mourinho witnessed a wonderfully composed performance from Stones. He served up a Cruyff turn that took him away from Pedro and did his defensive duties, showing the power to hold off Costa and getting in a crucial deflection to divert a Cesar Azpilicueta shot. “Today he showed he is going to be a future England captain,” said Martinez.
Mourinho shuffled his pack in the second half, sending on the young Brazilian Kenedy in place of Mikel, and later throwing on Falcao and Willian, the latter providing the energy lacking in Cesc Fabregas’s game.  After some great build-up play, Naismith was on hand to score his hat-trick and secure the points 
Everton were just as likely scorers. Lukaku tested Begovic more than once and with eight minutes remaning, Chelsea’s defence cracked again. Naismith timed his run on to Barkley’s pass behind the Chelsea defence and from an angle on the right drilled the ball under Begovic. It was, Martinez noted, the “perfect hat-trick – header, right [foot], left [foot]”. The Spaniard added that his team had “restricted Chelsea to two shots on target” although that says as much about the champions’ failings.  Everton's Roberto Martinez celebrates in front of Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho 

Everton (4-3-2-1): Howard; Coleman (Funes Mori, 77), Stones, Jagielka, Galloway; McCarthy, Barry, Besic (Naismith, 9); Koné (Lennon, 72), Barkley; Lukaku.

Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Begovic; Ivanovic, Zouma, Terry, Azpilicueta; Mikel (Kenedy, 55), Matic; Pedro (Falcao,  70), Fabregas (Willian, 74), Hazard; Costa.

Referee: Andre Marriner
Man of the match: Naismith (Everton)
Match rating: 7/10

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Observer:

Steven Naismith hat-trick gives Everton victory and piles pressure on Chelsea
Paul Wilson

Chelsea have made an unexpectedly terrible start to the season but credit to their supporters for maintaining a sense of humour. “We are staying up,” they chanted as their side slumped to a third defeat in five games. Things are probably not quite that bad, though as with José Mourinho being reminded to check his employment status in the morning or the league table that reveals Chelsea to be the first team to concede a dozen goals this season, this is not a situation anyone anticipated a few weeks ago.
A sizzling hat-trick by Steven Naismith, who was not even on the pitch at the start of the game, earned Everton a deserved victory in a fixture they lost 6-3 last season. Everton were excellent without being scintillating; it was the sluggishness and passivity of their opponents that was the most surprising feature of the game.
The side that hit six here last season appears to have disappeared. Despite the wealth of attacking talent at Mourinho’s disposal Chelsea might not have got on to the scoresheet at all but for an opportunist strike from considerable distance by a defensive midfielder.
The game came crackling to life a quarter of an hour in when John Stones overhit a back-pass to Tim Howard. The goalkeeper dealt with it comfortably enough but it resembled a shot and a Stones own goal against Chelsea would have been some story.
Within a minute Everton had taken the lead at the other end through a delightful combination of two of their squad players. Brendan Galloway, enjoying a run at left-back through injury to Leighton Baines, whipped in the most inviting of crosses that Naismith could hardly miss. The substitute, on after eight minutes when Muhamed Besic pulled up with a hamstring problem, met the ball perfectly on the six-yard line for a header that flew past the Chelsea No2 goalkeeper, Asmir Begovic.
If that was a bright start the afternoon got steadily better for the home side in the next few minutes. Begovic had to be alert to keep out a header from Arouna Koné after Séamus Coleman crossed from the left, then the goalkeeper saved again when James McCarthy sent in a shot from distance.
Within five minutes of the opening goal Naismith and Everton had a second. Good work by Koné and Romelu Lukaku by the right touchline led to Ross Barkley finding Naismith in space in the centre of the pitch, and spotting an opportunity the Scot beat Begovic with a cleanly struck left-foot shot that found the goalkeeper’s bottom-left corner.
With Coleman winning his sometimes physical duel with Diego Costa, Stones exuding grace under pressure as he calmly took on and beat opponents in his own penalty area and Mourinho subjected to chants of “You’re getting sacked in the morning”, Everton fans probably suspected it was too good to last.
So it was. After a largely unproductive first half-hour that had seen Costa living off scraps of possession and neither Eden Hazard nor Pedro making any impression on the game, Chelsea suddenly pulled a goal back with a bolt from the blue from Nemanja Matic. Everton could have closed the midfielder down more quickly, but as he was at least 30 yards out there seemed no immediate danger. Matic changed that perception with one imperious swing of his left boot, sending the ball arrowing into Howard’s top corner with a shot that was still rising as it crossed the line.

From a position of complete dominance, Everton spent the remainder of the first half on the back foot, defending too deep and inviting Chelsea to come at them. They made it to the interval without further mishap, though Chelsea went close on a couple of occasions, notably when John Terry headed narrowly over the bar and Hazard sent a shot through a crowded penalty area.
Lukaku had a chance to restore a two-goal cushion early in the second half but shot straight at Begovic, who needed two attempts to claim the ball and was aided by a surreptitious touch from Terry that the officials generously chose not to interpret as a back pass. Everton were duly incensed, though it would have been academic had Lukaku done better with the shot or looked across to see Koné arriving in support.
It turned out not to matter, Chelsea had by now misplaced the energy and goal threat that they managed to demonstrate in the period before half-time and with Stones treating his London admirers to a masterclass of defending with and without the ball Everton held out quite comfortably.
They were even able to bring on Aaron Lennon and Ramiro Funes Mori towards the end, before Naismith had made the game safe with his third goal, slotted home from a narrow angle from a pass by Barkley. A right-foot shot made it a perfect hat-trick and completed a perfect Everton afternoon, and Roberto Martínez still believes his side can play better. That remains to be seen – Chelsea are at present making all their opponents look good.

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Telegraph:

Everton 3 Chelsea 1
Steven Naismith scores hat-trick to pile misery on Jose Mourinho's men
Defending champions suffer third defeat of season for worst start to campaign since 1988
By Si Hughes

So when does a stumble become a crisis? Chelsea have made their worst start to a top flight campaign since 1986. It is early September and they have already conceded 12 goals, a number reached only in December last season. Another three and they will have equaled the total they finished with during José Mourinho’s first in charge, all those years ago.

Chelsea are redefining history. Yet with this victory, so did Everton. Steven Naismith became the first Everton player to score a hat-trick against Chelsea since Dixie Dean in 1931. His – a perfect one: a header, a second with his left foot and a third with his right - was the first achieved by any player against any of Mourinho’s Chelsea teams. Remarkably, Naismith began the day as a substitute.

Defeat here means Chelsea have lost two in a row in the league. The last time that happened under Mourinho in 2006, they’d already won the title. Mourinho is adamant that Chelsea’s run and position is down to luck and confidence.

Only the deluded would believe that fortune played a significant role in the outcome of this result.

With Everton deservedly ahead by two goals and Chelsea utterly wretched, John Stones inspired an image that should plague Mourinho for some time and summed up the attitude of the sides.
Under reasonable but not as acute pressure as he should have been inside his own six yard box, with Pedro – a winner of Champions Leagues and international tournaments - the only one confronting him, Stones executed a Cruyff turn in an area where lesser beings would have thumped it as far away as possible and with that, Everton began another wave of attack.
Everton’s were comfortable and Chelsea, worryingly lethargic ahead of an intensely scheduled set of fixtures.
In another world, of course, one where Bill Kenwright submitted to temptation, Stones would have been making his Chelsea debut here.
Chelsea’s protracted public summer pursuit of the defender has created antipathy from all sides. Before the game had even started, the ill feeling was clear. When asked about Stones in an interview conducted in the Main Stand's tunnel with BT Sport, Mourinho responded by terminating the conversation abruptly. The public address system played You Can’t Buy Me Love by the Beatles, a song Evertonians have adopted, where Stones stands for love and outside the stadium, special scarves were sold in Stones’s name. When the teams were read out, his name was cheered the loudest. Roberto Martínez later claimed Stones’s display proved why one day, “he will be an England captain.”

The recent past meant Everton were highly motivated. On a blustery afternoon, this was one of those occasions where the visiting team’s players are made to feel like prisoners and Goodison Park portrays the charm of a medieval dungeon.
Everton were 2-0 up inside 21 minutes and the lead could have been greater. Naismith was meant to be sitting on the substitutes’ bench through this period but Muhamed Bešić pulled up with a hamstring injury and an early introduction was necessary.

It did not seem to register with Chelsea’s defence and, indeed, midfield, that Naismith was capable of scoring winning goals against them even though he did so around this time of year two seasons ago. His opener was a classic; from a delicately guided Brendan Galloway cross, Naismith stampeded into the six-yard box unmarked and flung himself into its path, forcing a header into the top corner by sheer will.
Goodison’s ancient buttresses soon shuddered again. Asmir Begović had already saved spectacularly from Arouna Koné and James McCarthy by the time Naismith struck his second from distance.
It was difficult to tell whether there was any frustration in this Chelsea team. The only reaction initially was visible through Diego Costa, who swatted his forearm across Seamus Coleman’s face and was fortunate not to get sent off.

It was embarrassingly easy for Everton and Chelsea needed something extraordinary to happen for the flow to alter. Their response came out of nothing: Nemanja Matić rifling a glorious goal at the Gwladys Street end from 30-yards.
Curiously, considering what had gone before, Chelsea may have been ahead by half-time. There was an Eden Hazard shot that took a huge deflection and removed Tim Howard from the game that bobbled just wide and a John Terry header that lacked the direction for an equaliser at least.
That moment would never arrive. Chelsea were just as bad in the second half and Everton, just as committed and the result was made secure seven minutes before the end when Naismith seized on Ross Barkley’s pass to inflict the ultimate punishment.
For Everton, victory was theirs. “Sometimes you play against the champions and you can beat them and you look at lucky breaks,” Martínez said. “But for 90 minute we restricted Chelsea to two shots on target. We thoroughly deserved it.” And Martínez, not Mourinho, was right.

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Mail:

Everton 3-1 Chelsea:
Steven Naismith perfect hat-trick piles more pressure on stuttering champions despite Nemanja Matic screamer

By Oliver Holt

Mourinho was right, of course. Pressure is comparative but, in the context of managing a club like Chelsea and working for a man like owner Roman Abramovich, this loss felt like an ominous one.
Mourinho had a meeting with Abramovich at the club’s training ground on Friday. Abramovich is not a patient man and, even though Mourinho has a special place in the hearts of Chelsea fans, his position may be growing precarious.
He does not appear to be spoiling for a fight as he did the last time he left the club in 2007. ‘It is a pleasure, it is an honour and it is a happiness every day to work for this club,’ he said on Saturday night. But if Chelsea do not beat Arsenal next Saturday, Mourinho will be in deep trouble.
He said on Friday that he was not a quitter but he must do something now that he has never done before. Mourinho has to prove he can rebuild a club. He has to prove that he can turn things around mid-term. He has to prove that he can hang in there. His challenge is to show that he is more than a very successful shock-jockey, a guy who comes in like a whirlwind, wins big and then blows himself out after a couple of years. Can he build again like Sir Alex Ferguson did so often? Can he fix a Chelsea team that seems to be falling apart?
Mourinho has always been a front runner. When he starts to tire, he starts to tire fast and does not get back into the race. It feels as if that is what is happening here. Many interpreted his falling out with club doctor Eva Carneiro as a tell-tale sign that his focus was fading and nothing has happened since to change that view.
His situation was made to look more parlous on Saturday by the fact that Chelsea appeared old, tired, lost and vulnerable next to an Everton team full of the youth, verve and resilience Mourinho’s side lacked.
He walked out of a pre-match interview on Saturday when asked about Chelsea’s summer transfer target John Stones, it is easy to see why it remains such a painful subject. Just as much as the perfect hat-trick from substitute Steven Naismith — a header, left-foot drive and a right-foot cross-shot — Everton’s victory was built on a sumptuous defensive performance by Stones.
He gave Chelsea’s misfiring forwards a masterclass on Saturday. He did a Cruyff turn in his own box in the first half. In the second half, with Everton under pressure and Radamel Falcao threatening to pounce on a loose ball, Stones fooled the Colombian by dropping his shoulder and allowing it to run through to Tim Howard.
It was no surprise when Everton manager Roberto Martinez, who fought so hard to keep him from Chelsea’s clutches, tipped him as a future England captain after the game. It was hard to disagree. Chelsea now have only four points from their first five games and star players like Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas look shadows of the men they were last season.
Mourinho suddenly looks powerless. His team faces Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Champions League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday and those who fear for him will remember that the first time he was in charge of the club, he left after a disappointing opening European game at home to Rosenborg. The omens are not good.
Chelsea had begun the game well. Eden Hazard, in particular, looked back to his best, wriggling away from Ross Barkley and James McCarthy and curling a lofted ball down the wing to Branislav Ivanovic. Everton chased shadows and gave the ball away as soon as they got it.
Chelsea, with John Obi Mikel drafted in ahead of Willian to try to provide extra solidity at the base of midfield, looked comfortable and in control. Mourinho prowled the touchline, occasionally giving a thumbs up. It seemed that order was about to be restored. Then, with their first proper attack of the afternoon, Everton scored. With just over a quarter of an hour gone, they targeted Ivanovic and it paid off.
Naismith, an early substitute for the injured Muhamed Besic, took the ball deep in Chelsea territory, turned and laid it off to Brendan Galloway, who was given time and space to cross. He hit it with curl and pace and Naismith powered it into the roof of the net.
Everton fans, still exultant about Chelsea’s failure to prise away Stones, taunted Mourinho anew. ‘You’re getting sacked in the morning,’ they yelled.
The game was transformed. Everton looked irresistible. Seamus Coleman drilled in a cross from the right that Arouna Kone glanced goalwards. It took a brilliant diving save from Asmir Begovic, the replacement for the injured Thibaut Courtois, to keep it out.
Seconds later, Begovic was in action again, diving to his right to push a stinging shot from McCarthy round the post. But he could not hold back the blue tide and, when Barkley played a short, square pass to Naismith, he lashed it low past the goalkeeper’s left from 20 yards.
Chelsea were stunned. Their vulnerability this season has taken everyone by surprise, not least them. So has their impotence in front of goal. Costa was a largely anonymous presence again here. Even in his petulant arguments with defenders and a Goodison Park ballboy, his heart does not seem to be in it.
But just as it looked as if the match was spiralling out of their control, they regained a foothold. Nemanja Matic had not scored in the Premier League since he got one in a 6-3 Chelsea win at Goodison at the start of last season.
Ten minutes before half-time, he picked up the ball 30 yards out and caressed a curling left-foot shot past Howard. It was struck so cleanly and placed so perfectly that the Everton goalkeeper had no chance.
Chelsea glimpsed salvation. Their fans were encouraged enough to poke fun at themselves and their league position. ‘We are staying up,’ they sang. The goal breathed confidence into their team, too. They forced a series of corners. John Terry stole ahead of a defender but headed a Hazard cross just over.
Chelsea continued to press for an equaliser but the Everton defence stood firm. But the game remained in the balance until the 83rd minute when some brilliant interplay between Barkley and Naismith ended with the Scot driving a shot past Begovic to seal Everton’s win.

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Mirror:

Everton 3-1 Chelsea: 5 things we learned as Steven Naismith slammed home a hat-trick
John Cross

The Scotland forward came off the bench early on and struck three times as John Stones showed Jose Mourinho what he's missing out on
Chelsea's disastrous start to their Premier League title defence took another turn for the worse as they fell to a Steven Naismith treble at a rambunctious Goodison Park.
The Everton forward came off the bench in the ninth minute following an injury to Mo Besic, and proceeded to score twice in the first half to put the Toffees two goals to the good.
Nemanja Matic fired a tremendous reply before the break, but after a dogged second-half performance from the home side, Naismith drilled home right-footed to make the game safe.
That made it three defeats in five games for Jose Mourinho's men and continued their awful start to the season.
Here's five things we learned from proceedings on Merseyside:

1. John Stones is worth all the fuss
Stones is so comfortable on the ball that he even did a Cruyff turn in his own six yard box.
Memo to Stones: if you do join Chelsea in the future, that won’t be allowed.
Diego Costa nutmegged him in the first couple of minutes, but he quickly recovered and brought the ball away.
But Stones showed mental strength as well as being an outstanding defender. Everton did well to hold onto him - and possibly hold out for more.
2. Jose Mourinho is not a happy camper
The Special One walked out of a pre-match TV interview with BT Sport when asked about John Stones.
A happy, content Mourinho just shrugs that off and makes a quip to the interviewer. But this is not a happy and content Mourinho.
It’s early days but I was expecting a response from Chelsea today to announce they were back. And all we got was a reminder that they’ve got problems across the pitch with under-performing players and that’s why Mourinho is unhappy.
3. Cesc Fabregas is a bigger worry than Diego Costa
Costa is a million miles away from the snarling, annoying and unstoppable force who scored twice in a thumping Chelsea victory at Goodison last season.
There can be no doubt that Costa’s form is a big concern and an even bigger concern is that they’ve got no-one of the required standard to come in and take his place. Loic Remy and Radamel Falcao aren’t good enough back-up for a club like Chelsea.
But an even bigger problem is the form of Cesc Fabregas.
Fabregas at his best is a dream: brilliant passer, dictates the game and is constantly looking to play in the striker. At the moment, Fabregas is struggling as much as anyone in this team.
4. Steven Naismith must start more regularly
Everton turned down £8million from Norwich on deadline day and that proved to be as important as keeping John Stones.
He’s such a valuable player for Everton, he added pace, power and strength to Everton’s display after coming off the bench.
Surely a better option than Arouna Kone wide or out of position.
This was also a perfect hat trick - right foot, left foot and header.
5. Ross Barkley must improve his all round game
I’m a huge fan of Barkley and it’s great to see him getting a chance with England now.
But for Barkley to become more of a regular for England a more consistent force for Everton, then his all round game must improve.
Barkley is one of the most exciting and dangerous players in the Premier League when space opens up in front of him and he can forward.
Barkley is an offensive player by nature but if he can add more to his game then he will be the complete midfield player.

Player Ratings

Everton: Howard 6; Coleman 7, Stones 8, Jagielka 7, Galloway 7; McCarthy 7, Barry 6, Besic 5; Barkley 7; Kone 6, Lukaku 6
Subs: Naismith 9 MOTM, Lennon 6, Funes Mori 6.

Chelsea: Begovic 7; Ivanovic 6, Zouma 6, Terry 6, Azpilicueta 6; Matic 8, Mikel 5; Pedro 5, Fabregas 5, Hazard 7; Costa 6.
Subs: Kenedy 6, Falcao 6, Willian 6.

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Express:

Everton 3 - Chelsea 1

STEVEN NAISMITH scored a perfect hat-trick after coming off the bench to heap further pressure on Jose Mourinho's Chelsea at Goodison Park.
By Liam Spence

After five minutes the game was brought to a halt after Mohamed Besic went down clutching his hamstring, which he failed to shake off as he made way for Naismith.
Besic's injury momentarily disrupted Everton's flow with Pedro's pace and trickery causing the Toffees a host of problems as they looked to exploit the vulnerability of Galloway.
However, Roberto Martinez's men quelled the danger and launched an attack of their own on 17 minutes which resulted in the first goal with substitute Naismith powerfully heading into the net and past Asmir Begovic after a precise cross from Galloway.

This goal spurred Everton on and saw them launch a flurry of attacks with Arouna Kone and James McCarthy testing the reflexes of Begovic who was deputising for the injured Thibaut Courtois.
Everton's relentless attacking then lead to their second goal on 22 minutes with Naismith smashing home his second from 25-yards with a left-footed drive.
Despite Everton's dominance, Chelsea managed to pull on back before the break with Nemanja Matic hitting a 25-yard thunderbolt past Joel Robles.

After the break Chelsea tried to assert themselves with Costa firing wide and Eden Hazard threatening, but Everton frustrated them.
Everton put the final nail in the coffin after 83 minutes with Naismith clinching the match ball and scoring his third with a right-footed finish.
This victory sees Everton go third while the defending Premier League champions Chelsea drop to 15th.

Starting line-ups:
Everton: Howard, Coleman, Jagielka, Stones, Galloway; Barry, McCarthy, Besic Barkley; Kone, Lukaku.
Chelsea: Begovic, Ivanovic, Zouma, Terry (c), Azpilicueta, Matic, Mikel, Fabregas, Hazard, Pedro, Costa.

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Star:

Everton 3 Chelsea 1: Steven Naismith hat-trick piles pressure on Jose Mourinho
MONEY, the Goodison Park faithful insist, cannot buy you Stones.


By John Richardson

While the John Stones to Chelsea transfer saga dominated the summer headlines the fact the Merseysiders rejected an £8million deadline-day offer from Norwich for the Scot largely went under the radar.
But Jose Mourinho and Chelsea certainly know all about the ex-Rangers player who regularly invites the unemployed to home games. Mourinho’s opposite number Roberto Martinez paid tribute to his hat-trick hero and England defender Stones.
He said: “It would have been all too easy for Naisy not to be ready and not to be happy to not be in the starting eleven but he gave us a real example of focus, concentration and the real standard of this dressing room.
“John has been heavily tested but we never had a doubt in the way he would perform and he never let the team down. “Today he showed he is going to be a future England captain.”
Whether Naismith’s amazing hat-trick moves a rather forlorn-looking Stamford Bridge boss towards the dole queue remains to be seen.
But the fact is the Portuguese is facing a battle to survive following Chelsea’s worst start to a season since 1986 – and a so far horrendous defence of their league title.
Asked if he was under pressure Mourinho said: “No, no. I think the refugees are under big pressure.”
And he went on to insist he is happy as Chelsea boss. “It is a pleasure, an honour and it is happiness every day,” he said.

Owner Roman Abramovich is becoming twitchy and last week’s visit to the training ground could be a forerunner to a less amicable meeting if there is not a sudden turnaround in Chelsea’s fortunes.
The bookies have drastically shortened the odds on Mourinho becoming the first Premier League departure of a still embryonic season.
As the Everton storm erupted around Chelsea, the home faithful joyfully serenaded Mourinho with the Beatles-inspired song “Money can’t buy you Stones”.
The fading Premier League champions can’t even buy a point right now with their manager looking more like a hassled chemistry professor desperately searching for the right formula.
Chelsea have lost three of their last four games but Mourinho put the result down to bad luck.
He said: “We don’t deserve this result. It is too heavy for the way the players started the game, finished the game and played during the game.
“The biggest concern is everything goes against us. We know we’re making mistakes but for every mistake we are punished immediately. We need to win a couple of consecutive matches. We need the players to smile again. We need confidence.”
Asked if his side could still win the title, Mourinho said:
“I don’t know. Chelsea can win the next match against Arsenal for sure but to win the title, I don’t know.”

The Chelsea line-up, with John Obi Mikel and Nemanja Matic posted in front of a back four which contained returning skipper John Terry, suggested Mourinho had been intent on parking the bus.
And the bus had barely emerged from the garage before Everton’s endeavour and energy had been translated into a two-goal lead.
The fact Naismith got those goals was slightly fortunate – the Scot had started on the bench before being summoned into action following an early injury to Muhamed Besic.
His first goal came from a smart link-up with young full-back Brendan Galloway whose cross was expertly headed beyond keeper Asmir Begovic.
The second arrived after Begovic, who will now enjoy an extended run following an injury to Thibaut Courtois, had made a wonder save from an Arouna Kone header and diverted a stinging drive from James McCarthy around the post.
This time there was no escape from the Everton pressure as Naismith collected a short pass from Ross Barkley before firing low into the corner.
“You’re getting sacked in the morning”, sang the Everton fans.

This was redemption time and they wanted Mourinho to know it – and to suffer. Chelsea were on the ropes with the only fight coming from Diego Costa whose short fuse was in danger of igniting.
A running battle with Seamus Coleman could and probably should have been ended with a red card for the Spain international when he flicked an arm into the Everton defender’s face.
But it was not spotted by referee Andre Marriner who had earlier warned the fiery striker.
Thankfully for Chelsea, Matic retained a sense of purpose and out of nowhere the Serb launched an exocet missile from 30 yards which flew past Tim Howard to hand the visitors a lifeline.
Everton suddenly found themselves under the cosh and were glad to reach the interval still ahead.
In previous seasons under Mourinho, you would have backed Chelsea all the way for an equaliser but although there was greater possession it did not arrive.
The greater danger came from Everton and the inspirational Barkley.
It was his brilliant assist that set up Naismith for his hat-trick in the 82nd minute, the Scot driving low to complete Chelsea’s misery and send Evertonians into ecstasy.