Antonio Conte admits Chelsea's Premier League title hunt is OVER after West Ham defeat - 7M sport

Antonio Conte admits Chelsea's Premier League title hunt is OVER after West Ham defeat



Posted Sunday, December 10, 2017 by Express.co.uk

Antonio Conte admits Chelsea's Premier League title hunt is OVER after West Ham defeat
Antonio Conte admits Chelsea are out of the title race

ANTONIO CONTE admits Chelsea are out of the title race.

The Chelsea boss has thrown in the towel after just 16 games after another defeat - this time to West Ham at the London Stadium.

They are 11 points behind Manchester City who have a game in hand - against Manchester United tomorrow.

And the Italian insists four defeats is too much to fight back from.

"We have to consider these four games that we lose after 16 games," Conte said.

"When you lose four games my experience, my previous experience tells me that it's impossible to fight for the title.

"In 16 games to lose four games it means the target must be another."

And Conte then went on to claim they were never actually in the title race after a poor start to the season.

"You can only really afford to lose once or twice at the most," he said.

"But we never started in this race because we began the season with defeat at home to Burnley.

"When you lose to Palace when they are bottom of the league and then lose at West Ham like we did today you cannot be in the title race."

Conte was seething with his side for failing to open up the relegation battlers.

"When you lose a game you must be disappointed," he said.

"It is normal. I think today I saw the same game against Manchester City - West Ham.

"Our start was bad but today we played a bit tired. To face one game every two games always with the same players is very difficult. And we have just started this period.

"You have to move the ball quickly. But I repeat, we saw today a bit of tiredness in my players, especially in the last pass, we did a lot of mistakes.

"We must be disappointed. I repeat, we create many chances but were not able to score.

"We have to go and to play game by game, to be focussed. Don't forget in this league it is very difficult. There are six top teams and four go to Champions League. We have to fight and do our best."

"You have to move the ball quickly. But I repeat, we saw today a bit of tiredness in my players, especially in the last pass, we did a lot of mistakes.

"We must be disappointed. I repeat, we create many chances but were not able to score.

"We have to go and to play game by game, to be focussed. Don't forget in this league it is very difficult. There are six top teams and four go to Champions League. We have to fight and do our best."

"I don't want to speak about new players," he added. "It is better for me to talk to the club about that because the final decision is theirs, not mine."



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