Liverpool 1-3

Independent:

Pressure intensifies on Jose Mourinho after Philippe Coutinho double consigns Blues to defeat
Chelsea 1 Liverpool 3

Glenn MOORE Stamford Bridge

At the final whistle, Kurt Zouma slumped on to his haunches, head bowed in despair. The cheers from Liverpool’s dressing room could be heard through thick walls and their players tweeted pictures of the party. Rarely can a team in ninth place at the start of day have celebrated with such abandon beating one in 15th, and seldom can the latter have looked so distraught.
This, though, was no ordinary  mid-table match. Jürgen Klopp’s first Premier League victory could prove the start of something special on Merseyside and the end of a Special One at Stamford Bridge.

It still seems unlikely that Chelsea will fire the man who regained the title just six months ago, or that Mourinho, despite his increasingly erratic behaviour, would quit, but in the fevered atmosphere infecting Stamford Bridge it would no longer be a shock.

Yet, for periods yesterday, Chelsea looked in recovery. They scored early through Ramires and when Philippe Coutinho, having levelled in first-half injury time, scored his second to give Liverpool the lead, it was against the run of play. Were he not in such a truculent mood Mourinho could also have argued justifiably that the influential Lucas Leiva should have been dismissed for a second booking with the scores level.

Yet even when Chelsea were leading they looked short of confidence, and when the game began to sprint away from them they and their manager seemed at a loss to understand what was happening, let alone remedy the situation. While the fans made it clear they still back Mourinho, the empty seats at the final whistle made clear few in the ground believed in a comeback.

Defeat means the champions have won once in eight games, and that against an Aston Villa team that loses to everyone yet had the better of the match until conceding a daft goal. Next up are Dynamo Kiev in the Champions League on Wednesday, then a return to Stoke, where Chelsea went out of the Capital One Cup on penalties on Tuesday.

Mourinho shuffled his squad of millionaire internationals again. John Obi Mikel played rather than Nemanja Matic, even though the latter was available after suspension, and Cesc Fabregas was omitted in favour of Oscar. The latter played wide left with Eden Hazard central. It looked a team designed not to lose the match rather than win it.
So did Liverpool’s, with Divock Origi rested and Roberto Firmino leading the line. This meant Roy Hodgson watched seven Brazilians and five Englishman. At one stage, as substitutions took effect, that ratio was 8:4.

Despite the samba talent on show, the game was hardly an exposition of flair, being notable more for hard work, especially but not exclusively by Liverpool players, physical challenges, and often sterile midfield manoeuvres.
Chelsea were given the ideal start with a rarity this season, a goal from open play. Neat, tight passing on the left created space for Cesar Azpilicueta to cross from the byline. With Alberto Moreno ball-watching, Ramires stole across the Spaniard to head home powerfully.

Eighty six minutes is a long time to hold on to a lead but as the first half wore on, it became increasingly clear that this, by accident or design, was Chelsea’s approach. With Diego Costa shackled by Martin Skrtel in a bruising contest, and Hazard quiet, Simon Mignolet did not have to make a save for another hour, and then it was from the centre-circle that Oscar stretched him.

By then Liverpool had long been level. Allowed to regain their composure as Chelsea stood off, they had come to control the first period, with James Milner delivering a stream of crosses. Each time the subsequent shot went straight at Asmir Begovic until, deep into added time – too deep claimed Chelsea later – Milner cut the ball back for Firmino instead of crossing. The hitherto anonymous “false nine” moved the ball on to Coutinho, who dummied Ramires to create space and curled a fine shot inside the far post.

It was not until Kenedy was introduced that Chelsea began again to resemble the team of last season, with the newcomer introducing urgency. As the pressure built, a row broke out between Klopp and Chelsea assistant Jose Morais, and a series of bookings followed, including for Lucas, who had been a persistent fouler. Then Lucas tripped Ramires in midfield. It looked a clear booking, but Mark Clattenburg, to Mourinho’s fury, settled for a talking to.
Five minutes later Mamadou Sakho launched a long ball on to the head of substitute Christian Benteke, who headed down to Coutinho. He duped Gary Cahill then scored with a shot that deflected off John Terry.

After that it was just a matter of how many goals Liverpool would score, with Chelsea in disarray. Moreno and Jordan Ibe could have scored before Benteke did, taking advantage of poor positioning by Chelsea’s defenders to convert Ibe’s pass.
When, in the 93rd minute, Zouma attempted a wild shot that veered off for a throw-in on the far side of the pitch, it seemed to sum up a team that has lost its way and knows not how to rediscover it. 


Chelsea: (4-2-3-1) Begovic; Zouma, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta; Ramires, Mikel (Fabregas, 70); Willian, Hazard (Kenedy, 59), Oscar; Costa.
Liverpool: (4-2-3-1) Mignolet; Clyne, Skrtel, Sakho, Moreno; Can, Lucas; Milner (Benteke, 64), Coutinho, Lallana (Lovren, 90); Firmino (Ibe, 75).

Referee: Mark Clattenburg
Man of the match: Skrtel (Liverpool)
Match rating: 7/10

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Observer:

Philippe Coutinho doubles up for Liverpool to pile pressure on José Mourinho
Chelsea 1 - 3 Liverpool

Dominic Fifield at Stamford Bridge

If José Mourinho was already teetering on the brink then this is the kind of defeat that may push any manager into the abyss. It was not that Chelsea succumbed to a sixth league loss of a hapless Premier League title defence. Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool were excellent and would have tested teams far more confident than the ailing champions. Rather, it was the manner of the surrender. To have led and then disintegrated, just as they had to Southampton earlier in the month, felt damning and, in truth, far too much of this was humiliating.
 
The manager, initially reluctant to offer any assessment at all of a dispiriting afternoon, ended up treading a familiar path. He would not say it himself, what with two sanctions already hanging over him from the Football Association, but his post-match referrals to a “lack of respect for his players” centred upon the referee, Mark Clattenburg, and his fourth official, Lee Mason. There was exasperation at the excessive stoppage time played at the end of the first half, in which Philippe Coutinho drew the visitors level, and vehement complaints that Lucas Leiva’s brace of fouls within 10 second-half minutes, when the game was level and tension was mounting, drew only one yellow card when Mourinho and his players were baying for a red.

The Brazilian was fortunate – Crystal Palace’s Dwight Gayle, sent off by the same referee for a pair of similar fouls against West Ham two weeks ago, may echo the locals’ frustration – and even Klopp acknowledged “you need a bit of luck if you want to win at Chelsea”. Yet, as ever, the visitors could point to other inconsistencies, not least an apparent kick from Diego Costa into Martin Skrtel’s chest, as having gone similarly unpunished. That pair have history. Yet Mourinho’s complaints over the performance of the officials could not mask the deficiencies in his own players’ display. There was no lack of effort or commitment but there was a dearth of bite, cohesion and belief. Confidence is still shattered and, as yet, Mourinho has offered no indication that he can restore it.

The scenario played out here, with the Portuguese helpless and alone in his technical area, was all too familiar.
It was actually near identical to the thrashing endured against Ronald Koeman’s team on 3 October: the plundering of an early goal to suggest dominance, only for that hint of ascendancy to prove deceptive; a steady erosion of conviction thereafter; and a collapse midway through the second half.

Ramires’s early header, thumped down and through Simon Mignolet as he burst beyond a dawdling Alberto Moreno, was a false dawn. Chelsea had outnumbered and outpassed James Milner and Nathaniel Clyne on the opposite flank, with Eden Hazard flicking César Azpilicueta to the byline for the Spaniard to supply the centre. But that was the Belgian’s only real eye-catching contribution. He would not see out the hour and, instead, the playmaker in the opposing ranks would hold sway.
Coutinho revelled in the space afforded him by an obliging Chelsea defence.

The Brazilian had Emre Can or Lucas snapping away at his back, regaining possession and closing down the hosts higher and higher up the pitch, while Milner and Clyne made amends down their flank to force the champions further into retreat. The sight of Gary Cahill and John Terry flinging themselves in the way of battered attempts drew appreciation from those in the stands but the desperation of the defending reflected a shift in momentum. Liverpool, with Klopp a frenzy of instruction in the technical area, had realised they were the more threatening side and, as the contest progressed, their stranglehold was reflected in the scoreline.
 
Asmir Begovic claimed from Adam Lallana and Lucas but Clyne and Milner, culpable at Liverpool’s concession, were making too many inroads on the wing. The hosts were praying for a half-time whistle, Mourinho waiting in the mouth of the tunnel, when Coutinho gathered on the edge of the box, cut inside Ramires’s lunge and curled a sumptuous shot inside the far post beyond Begovic’s despairing dive. Coutinho’s second, from just inside the penalty area, flicked off the advancing Terry and deflected in beyond Begovic. Christian Benteke, performing the Graziano Pellè role, calmly added a third as Chelsea failed to close down the substitute, though, by then, there was a certain inevitability to it all.

Klopp will have spied plenty from his first away win, and the side’s first since the campaign’s opening weekend, to offer encouragement that Liverpool, under his guidance, will recover their own poise, even if he was comically dismissive of ambitious talk of an early title challenge. “Oh please, are you crazy?” he said with a guffaw. “I’ve been here three weeks. You think, after one win at Chelsea, we should be thinking about a title?”

There was a time, not long ago, when triumphing at Stamford Bridge would have fuelled such belief but not at present. Mourinho has never lost more than six league games in a single season, and he has suffered that many in 11 matches to date this term. He will reconvene his coaching staff back at Cobham on Sunday to begin preparations for Wednesday’s Champions League contest against Dynamo Kyiv, with another trip to Stoke City to follow on Saturday. Both might once have been considered very winnable games but there is no respite at present and no real sign of recovery. This campaign has long since unravelled.

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Telegraph:

Chelsea 1 Liverpool 3

 Philippe Coutinho piles pressure on Jose Mourinho

Liverpool midfielder strikes twice and Christian Benteke adds a third as Chelsea manager edges closer to the brink

By  Sam Wallace, Chief Football Writer, Stamford Bridge

He is thinking dark thoughts, nursing bleak conspiracy theories and accumulating grudges like some people collect west London parking tickets but the one thing Jose Mourinho cannot do is the one thing that goes to the very heart of his being – and that is win football matches.

The great Chelsea slump of autumn 2015 has a momentum all of its own and for a man who is accustomed to being in control, of shaping the great chaos of football, there is suddenly no control at all. Squandered leads, deflected goals and another dreadful performance from Eden Hazard, this was a Halloween medley of all those bad dreams that must haunt Mourinho’s sleep.

Not to mention the referee, around whom Mourinho once again set the narrative. He was enraged at the failure of Mark Clattenburg to dismiss Lucas Leiva on 67 minutes for what he believed was a second yellow card offence, a trip on Ramires, and yet, this being Mourinho, he was equally unwilling to discuss a kick that Diego Costa aimed at Martin Skrtel’s chest in the second half.

The rage is all too familiar but listening to Mourinho berate journalists after the game for failing to take Clattenburg to task – basically, for refusing to fall in line with every one of his views – it was impossible not to feel that there has to be more to it than that. A summer in which it is understood the club failed to land even one of his first-choice transfer targets, and then 11 league games in which certain players have been the ghosts of those they were last season.

All that was recognisable about the Costa of now to the Costa of 12 months ago is the aggravation with defenders; the goals have all but ceased. Hazard, who briefly shone against Stoke City in mid-week, was justly substituted after 58 minutes. Cesc Fabregas and Nemanja Matic started on the bench. Gary Cahill and John Terry have lost the sovereignty of their own penalty area, their game now all last-second dives and deflected shots.

Most excruciating for Mourinho, ever a man for the present, is that he currently exists not on current results but past deeds. His boss Roman Abramovich was not even in the stadium to watch his club go down to a sixth league defeat of the season.

He would have heard them singing Mourinho’s name at Stamford Bridge, it is whether the Russian cares or not that matters. Jurgen Klopp’s first Premier League victory was well-deserved, with the first two goals from Philippe Coutinho since the first day of the season and a game-changing substitute’s performance from Christian Benteke in the second half.

Benteke made the second goal for Coutinho and scored the third himself but before then, Liverpool had pressed the champions wherever possible and surged in confidence after Coutinho’s equaliser in time added on at the end of the first half. They had conceded within four minutes of the start when Ramires headed in Gary Cahill’s deflected left wing cross.

It was notable in the first half that Mourinho’s side never got down Liverpool’s right side again, that being the side that Klopp was stood with the new German coach ferocious in his criticism of James Milner in particular. At one break in play, English football’s most willing toiler threw his water bottle to the ground in protest at the haranguing.

As it was, Liverpool took shape after the goal and you got a good view of what it is Klopp wants to do. He hates the ball passed backwards, he insists on the press, and when possession is lost he affects a twirling lasso-style gesture to usher his players back into formation to start the process again.
Mourinho’s approach was conservative: for the most part his players let Liverpool have the ball and tried to pick their way quickly out of the press when they turned over possession. That meant Willian, who runs with the ball as quick as anyone. Hazard, on the other wing, and occasionally down the centre, scarcely registered.

The first moment of contention involved Costa, when Milner tried to change his manager’s mind with a full-blooded 50-50 challenge with the striker. Only on the replay could you see Costa step over the ball and lift his studs off the ground to collide with Milner’s leg. In the aftermath even Klopp, who watched the challenge from yards away, did not feel there was a card in it.
The equaliser came from the right side when Milner picked the ball up and, instead of crossing, played it into the feet of Roberto Firmino, leading the line, who had come short. He laid it off to Coutinho, barely in the game at that point, who took a step past Ramires and curled his shot beyond Asmir Begovic’s right hand.

In the second half, Mourinho lost his cool with the fourth official Lee Mason over the foul that might have seen Lucas sent off. He insisted that he was only bringing on Fabregas because John Obi Mikel had been booked – wrongly in his view. Klopp got in an argument with Jose Morais, one of Mourinho’s backroom. Mourinho complained to Mason that he was not at liberty to give him the same grief that Klopp dished out at times.

There was a moment with the score at 1-1 when Oscar pinched the ball from Lucas and almost lobbed Mignolet from just inside the Liverpool half, but the goalkeeper recovered to save and then the roof fell in on Chelsea.
Benteke, on for Milner, headed the ball down to Coutinho on 74 minutes and the Brazilian was able to work the ball onto his right foot and hit a shot that clipped Terry on its way in. Then seven minutes from time, Benteke had the same kind of space to strike a shot that deflected off Cahill. The final stages for Mourinho, with Klopp polite in his jubilation, must have been excruciating. All it required was the German to proffer a handshake two minutes from time and exit with a flourish.

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Mail:

Chelsea 1-3 Liverpool: Philippe Coutinho and Christian Benteke heap more misery on Jose Mourinho's stuttering champions

By Neil Ashton for The Mail on Sunday

For Jose Mourinho the painful, pitiful truth is that the Chelsea manager has tried every trick in the book to bring these players back onside.
Nothing has worked and nobody inside that Chelsea dressing room is listening any more. They are done with him, that much is clear.
Mourinho revelled in his billing as the master of motivation and mind games when he gained a reputation across European football as the game’s ultimate trophy hunter.

Now the players who won the Barclays Premier League title and the Capital One Cup last season, have lost faith and trust in him.
Here they capitulated, unsure and uncertain about their individual roles after Ramires had converted Cesar Azpilicueta’s fourth minute cross from the left.
Why? Because Mourinho has dug these players out in so many dressing room outbursts and team meetings this season that they are no longer capable of listening to him. Mourinho’s voice is just noise now.

They were beaten here, well beaten in the end, humbled and embarrassed by the brisk, adventurous football that Liverpool’s players have taken to playing under their new coach Jurgen Klopp.
Philippe Coutinho’s goals were both peaches: one from his left boot to equalise two minutes into added time in the first half and one from the right that beat Asmir Begovic deep into the second half.
By the time substitute Christian Benteke scored Liverpool’s third seven minutes from time, Mourinho carried the haunted look of a man who had run out of ideas.

Liverpool were superior in every department, tactical and technical.
That will hurt Mourinho because the illusion he created, that of a super-coach with no equal in this sport, is suddenly making fools of us all. It turns out the guy is not infallible.
This is Chelsea’s sixth defeat in the Barclays Premier League, their third in eight days including the penalty shootout defeat at Stoke City on Tuesday. It feels like we are a long way into the end game.

Beyond Ramires’ goal in the fourth minute this performance was shameful, one of the meekest surrenders in Mourinho’s history as a coach with Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid. It was chaotic.
In times gone by this Chelsea team would dig in for the afternoon, suffocating the silky skills of Roberto Firmino, Adam Lallana, Lucas Leiva and Coutinho if it meant they could eek out a victory. Here they crumbled.

Starting with the obvious and increasing influence of Lucas, Liverpool are starting their attacks from deep and moving the ball as quickly as they possibly can through midfield.
John Obi Mikel and Ramires, starting ahead of Nemanja Matic and Cesc Fabregas, obligingly allowed Liverpool’s players to comb through them at pace. At times, when Firmino dropped deep, he was outstanding.

Klopp’s team recovered from Chelsea’s early strike, dominating possession and waiting for one of the flicks from this enterprising forward line to finally pay off.
It did, two minutes into injury time at the end of the first half, when Coutinho gleefully curled the ball beyond Begovic with his left foot after a neat interchange between James Milner and Firmino.

Mourinho, waiting at the top of the tunnel, turned on his heels and made his way to the home dressing room the moment Begovic was beaten. That stunt has long since lost its impact, if indeed it ever had any.
Mourinho was irritable on the touchline and you know things must be bad when his irksome sidekick Rui Faria is leaping off his seat to calm his manager down.
The Special One was annoyed with the Normal One when Klopp drew an imaginary square in the air for the benefit of referee Mark Clattenburg when he missed a first half foul.

Mourinho made no mention of Diego Costa’s kick at Martin Skrtel, for which he could have been sent off, but he did demand a second yellow card when Lucas stupidly body-checked Ramires. He was right about that.

For 90 minutes at least, Klopp has toppled Mourinho again and it will take more than afternoon watching the rugby World Cup final for Chelsea’s manager to get over this wretched performance.
His relationship with Eden Hazard is back in the spotlight again after they tried to find a position for him on the pitch that worked. Left, right and centre, all of them failed him.

By the time Mourinho sent Kenedy on to replace the PFA player of the year, sheer panic had spread across Chelsea’s defence as substitute Jordon Ibe and Lallana sliced through the lunges of John Terry, Gary Cahill, Kurt Zouma and Azpilicueta. All four defenders were awful.
Save for Oscar’s impudent lob from just inside Liverpool’s half that was pawed away by Simon Mignolet,that was Chelsea’s only meaningful attacking contribution to the second half.
This was Liverpool’s day, with the eyes of Lucas, Firmino, Coutinho, Lallana and Ibe lighting up every time they were in possession. They are enjoying the game again.

Liverpool’s second arrived via the masterful figure of Coutinho, feigning to shoot on the edge of the area before he finally wrapped his right boot around the ball.
There was time for more when Benteke finished nearly, wrong-footing Chelsea’s defence with a neat turn and planting his effort beyond Begovic.
His strike caused Mourinho to miss his mouth with a swig of drink, somehow managing to spill it all over his light blue shirt.
Much more of this and there will be another jaw-dropping moment.


Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Begovic 6; Zouma 5, Cahill 6, Terry 6, Azpilicueta 6 (Falcao 75, 6); Ramires 7, Mikel 6.5 (Fabregas 69, 6), Willian 7; Oscar 6.5, Hazard 5 (Kenedy 59, 6), Costa 6
Subs not used: Baba, Remy, Matic, Amelia
Scorer: Ramires 4
Booked: Mikel

Liverpool (4-3-3): Mignolet 6; Clyne 7, Skrtel 7, Sakho 7.5, Moreno 5.5; Can 6.5, Lucas 6.5, Milner 7 (Benteke 64, 7); Lallana 7.5 (Lovren 90), Coutinho 8.5, Firmino 7.5 (Ibe 75, 6.5)
Subs not used: Allen, Bogdan, Teixeira, Randall
Scorers: Coutinho 45+3, 74, Benteke 83
Booked: Coutinho, Lucas, Can, Benteke

Att: 41,577
Referee: Mark Clattenburg

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Mirror:

Chelsea 1-3 Liverpool: 5 things we learned as Blues lose AGAIN to leave Jose Mourinho on the brink
  
By John Cross
 
Philippe Coutinho scored twice to hand Jurgen Klopp's first Premier League win - but leave Chelsea boss Mourinho sweating on his future

Chelsea crashed to another shocking defeat to leave Jose Mourinho on the brink of the sack.
The Blues took the lead with less than five minutes played when Ramires headed them in front against Liverpool.
It should have been the platform for Mourinho's men to go on and start to turn their season around... but it wasn't.
Philippe Coutinho scored in injury time in the first half, then added a second after the break.
Christian Benteke finished it off with 10 minutes left to hand Jurgen Klopp his first Premier League win - but leave Mourinho fearing for his Chelsea future.

John Cross was at the match, here's what he learned:

1) Rodgers got it right on Moreno (well, sort of…)

The Spanish full back this week claimed that Brendan Rodgers left him in a “rage” by not picking him.
Want to know why? Because of moments like on Chelsea’s fourth minute opener.
Moreno went to sleep, lost his man and allowed Ramires to head in. You need your defenders to defend.
Jurgen Klopp has brought him back as there’s little option. And don’t have a go at Rodgers. He paid £16m for you…

2) Mamadou Sakho is flourishing under Klopp

If there is one payer to have really excelled under Klopp then it has to be Mamadou Sakho.
The powerful centre half has been outstanding in recent games and was again at Stamford Bridge.
Big, strong and commanding. All the qualities why Liverpool signed him now look as if they are coming to the fore. Even his passing was good.
Liverpool’s creaking defence already looks stronger.

3) The officials will Klopp it from Jurgen

The Liverpool manager is very, very lively on the touchline - not least with the officials.
Klopp blew a fuse and regularly berated the referee and the fourth official.
He looks very excitable. When Klopp thought Jon Obi Mikel had got away with a handball, he berated fourth official Lee Mason.
Jose Mourinho then stepped in to almost suggest: Imagine if that was me…
I think he’s got a point.

4) The fans are still with Mourinho - but are the board?

Make no mistake, the fans are with Jose Mourinho - and are backing him to the hilt.
Even before the first goal, the Chelsea fans chanted Mourinho’s name. When Ramires put Chelsea ahead, the chants got even louder.
But this wasn’t just a defeat. It was a proper beating. Chelsea were poor in the end.
The Liverpool fans chanted: “You’re not special anymore.”
The Chelsea fans streamed out before the end. It feels like the end game has begun.
At least the Chelsea fans chanted, even at 1-3, for their manager. “Jose Mourinho,” they cried. At least they remain loyal.

5) Eden Hazard is a massive problem for Jose Mourinho

Mourinho started Hazard in the No10 role, shifted him wide and then subbed him before the hour mark.
Hazard’s form is poor and you wonder whether his relationship with Mourinho is a factor.
Hazard was Chelsea’s best player last season, he was the best player in the Premier League and yet no-one has suffered more through this crisis than the Belgian forward.

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Express:

Chelsea 1 - Liverpool 3: Jurgen Klopp's Reds pile more misery on Jose Mourinho
JURGEN KLOPP doesn't look remotely like an undertaker - but he could have hammered a nail in Jose Mourinho's coffin here.

By COLIN MAFHAM

The loss puts more pressure on under-fire Jose Mourinho

The German’s first Premier League win as Liverpool manager was comprehensive enough to suggest the end is nigh for Mourinho if the now less than Special One can’t find a cure for Chelsea’s obvious ills. And quick!
Roman Abramovich was not at Stamford Bridge yesterday to see the worst ever start by defending champions in the Premier League’s history. But you can bet your boots dinner with him last night was not a pleasant experience.
There is something seriously wrong with Chelsea and the Russian is not the sort of bloke to let that situation continue for long.
The consensus is that Mourinho will get more time to turn his chumps back into champs again – and clear his own head as well.

He shuffled into last night’s post-match inquest with a scowl and sarcasm for any who dared to suggest that anything but bad luck and dodgy decisions were responsible for Chelsea’s demise.
The manner in which Liverpool were able to come back after going behind to a Ramires goal after just three minutes suggested otherwise.
Those first three minutes were arguably the only ones in which Chelsea had Liverpool on the rack. It was a very different story for the next 90.
Philippe Coutinho’s stunning equaliser 35 seconds over the two minutes of allotted first-half injury time was no more than Klopp’s men deserved.
 
And neither was the equally impressive second one Coutinho scored on 74 minutes as John Terry and co gave him far too much room on the edge of the box.
The same can be said when Christian Benteke wrapped it all up nine minutes later as his so-called markers simply stood back and let him shoot.
Mourinho was quick to remind everyone that his threatened stadium ban from the FA for criticising referees in the past precluded him for having a go at Mark Clattenburg yesterday.
But his demeanour made it clear that he felt Liverpool’s Lucas should have been sent off for fouling John Odi Mikel, although he wasn’t so forthright about Diego Costa’s blatant kick at Martin Skrtel, which could also have been deemed a red-card offence.
The verdict according to Mourinho was: “There are things that are out of our hands.

“The players tried. I think you could feel – not because we scored in the first couple of minutes – the attitude. You could feel the desire, that the game was maximum 50-50, in spite of us winning 1-0 early on.
“Then you have two minutes’ extra-time and we concede the goal on 2 minutes 35 seconds.
“Everything that happened in the second half, everything was a consequence of some crucial moments, moments that the stadium and players more than saw. From now, whatever happens is just a consequence.
“I have some players who are really sad in the dressing room. We see it match after match, as professionals, that they’re not getting the respect they deserve.”
Similarly Liverpool might suggest that all the focus on Mourinho robbed them of the respect they deserved for an impressive performance.

A delighted Klopp said afterwards: "We had little bit of luck, of course, but I feel it was deserved. We had to work hard, but that's normal if you want to win at Chelsea."
And on the Costa/Skrtel clash he added: “I can't say anything. I saw Martin and Costa, intensive one-on-one situations, nothing more. Both hard guys. No problems."
Which is precisely what the Liverpool boss appears to have right now. No problems.
The same can not be said for Mr Mourinho.

Chelsea: Begovic, Zouma, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta (Falcao 75), Ramires, Mikel (Fabregas 70), Willian, Ocar, Hazard (Kenedy 59), Costa.
Liverpool: Mignolet, Clyne, Skrtel, Sakho, Moreno, Lucas, Can, Milner (Benteke 63), Coutinho, Lallana, Fermino (Ibe 75).

Referee: Mark Clattenburg.

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Star:

Chelsea 1 Liverpool 3: Jurgen Klopp gets one over Jose Mourinho as Blues crisis deepens
JOSE MOURINHO was Klopped as the agony and frustration continued for the Chelsea boss.

By Paul Hetherington

Philippe Coutinho struck twice and substitute Christian Benteke scored a third as Jurgen Klopp continued his unbeaten start as Liverpool boss.
And it was a day when referees continued to drive Mourinho mad.
He was furious when Mark Clattenburg failed to send off the already-booked Lucas for a blatant trip on Ramires in the 68th minute, when the score was 1-1.
Mourinho reacted by sarcastically applauding Clattenburg and complaining to fourth official Lee Mason.
But when the dust settled, the champions were left to contemplate their SIXTH league defeat of the season in only 11 games.
That’s the worst start to a season ever in the Premier League by the defending champions.

Klopp said: “Jose is a great coach – one of the best in the world. I had a similar situation at Dortmund last season, but I didn’t feel under pressure.
“But today I can’t have sympathy for him. I feel we deserved to win.
“I’m not sure if the Lucas incident was even a foul, but you need a bit of luck to win at Chelsea.
“But please don’t ask me about winning the league!”
It was a Halloween horror all right for Chelsea – yet it had started so well.
Mourinho’s pre-match rallying call and insistence that he still had belief in his players did not spare Cesc Fabregas from the axe.

The Blues’ Spain playmaker became the latest Chelsea star in this controversial season at the Bridge to be relegated to the bench.
But it was one of the players preferred to him in midfield – Ramires – who gave Chelsea a flying start.
Cesar Azpilicueta supplied the cross from the left and Ramires burst into the box to meet the ball with a firm, downward header.
Not a bad way for the Brazil ace to mark his new deal, signed on Friday.
The crowd had started to sing Mourinho’s name when the ball went in the net and he responded with a wave to the Matthew Harding stand.
Liverpool hit back with plenty of possession and Asmir Begovic had to make smart saves from Adam Lallana and Coutinho. And that became a pattern, with Chelsea sitting back and almost inviting pressure.

Begovic made another save, this time from a Lucas header and Chelsea looked to have survived the first half as the game went into two added minutes.
Mourinho was already heading down the tunnel when, for no obvious reason, the game moved into a third added minute.
And that’s when Liverpool equalised after a neat move, which led to Firmino finding Coutinho, who superbly curled the ball into the far corner of the net.
The animated Klopp clashed with the Chelsea bench in the 56th minute – but not Mourinho.
His war of words was with assistant first-team coach Jose Morais as the temperature was raised.
Chelsea threatened to regain the lead after a flowing move involving Oscar and Willian, but Ramires’ drive was blocked by Martin Skrtel.

Oscar was then denied one of the goals of the season, when his 50-yard lob was turned for a corner by the back-pedalling Simon Mignolet.
But it was Liverpool who went ahead in the 74th minute, when substitute Benteke headed down for Coutinho to strike a right-foot shot which took a deflection off John Terry on its way into the net.
And just seconds later, it took a save by Begovic to prevent Alberto Moreno scoring a third for Liverpool.
But seven minutes from time Benteke turned well to strike Liverpool’s third, this time the slight deflection coming off Gary Cahill.
After that live TV interview, where he was a man of few words, Mourinho decided to speak a little more to the press afterwards.
But it was a spicy affair. He was asked about Lucas avoiding a second yellow for a foul on Ramires.

He said: “What do you think? You are not punished by the FA. I’m punished if I tell you.
“There are things that are out of our hands. Two minutes extra-time at the end of the first half, we concede the goal on two minutes 35 seconds.
“Then what happened in the second half, everything is a consequence of some crucial moments.
“Moments that the stadium saw, the players more than see, the players felt it, from now, what happens is just a consequence.
“I have some players really sad in the dressing room and I am full of respect for them.”