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Gary Cahill admits to feeling angry at Chelsea’s performance in defeat at Manchester United on Sunday but is expecting an immediate response.<\/p>\n
The Blues were beaten 2-0 at Old Trafford with their former boss Jose Mourinho scoring a moral victory as goals from Marcus Rashford and Ander Herrera pegged Chelsea back.<\/p>\n
The defeat means Antonio Conte’s side are now just four points clear of London rivals Tottenham at the top of the Premier League with six games remaining.<\/p>\n
Chelsea remain the favourites to win the title but a fifth loss of the campaign left England defender Cahill hoping it was a bad day at the office rather than the start of a slump which could prove costly.<\/p>\n
“We didn’t click,” he told chelseafc.com<\/p>\n
“It’s disappointing. We tried to work hard in the second half, tried to push and create, but we were below the standards we’ve set.<\/p>\n
“We weren’t at the races and it makes us a bit angry. Let’s hope it’s an off day and it doesn’t cost us too much.<\/p>\n
“We expected them to start fast and we had to try and control that, and we never did.”<\/p>\n
While Chelsea and Spurs will insist they only have eyes on themselves in the title run-in, the pair do clash next weekend in an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.<\/p>\n
They last met in the final four back in 2012 and it was Chelsea who ran out comfortable 5-1 winners on that occasion.<\/p>\n
And Cahill, who came off the bench for Roberto Di Matteo’s side that afternoon, wants a reaction from the Blues after Sunday’s poor display.<\/p>\n
“We have to react in the right way,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We have to dust ourselves off and prepare for a huge semi-final, and then we go again with some important home games coming up.”<\/p>\n
Spurs have won their last seven league games to keep the pressure on Chelsea, who also lost at home to Crystal Palace earlier in the month.<\/p>\n
Cahill wants a similar answer to that set-back and knows a fifth Premier League crown is not simply waiting for Chelsea at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
“We reacted after Palace, we bounced back with two wins so it’s a similar thing,” he added.<\/p>\n
“We have to go again. We are still in a great position.<\/p>\n
“There are only six games left, and we are still in a good position. We need to realise it’s not over, we need to realise there are points to play for, and we have to dig in.<\/p>\n
“No-one is going to give us this league, we have to work for it like we have done for the majority of this season.”<\/p>\n
Source: PA<\/p>\n
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![\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\nGary Cahill admits to feeling angry at Chelsea’s performance in defeat at Manchester United on Sunday but is expecting an immediate response.<\/p>\nThe Blues were beaten 2-0 at Old Trafford with their former boss Jose Mourinho scoring a moral victory as goals from Marcus Rashford and Ander Herrera pegged Chelsea back.<\/p>\nThe defeat means Antonio Conte’s side are now just four points clear of London rivals Tottenham at the top of the Premier League with six games remaining.<\/p>\nChelsea remain the favourites to win the title but a fifth loss of the campaign left England defender Cahill hoping it was a bad day at the office rather than the start of a slump which could prove costly.<\/p>\n“We didn’t click,” he told chelseafc.com<\/p>\n“It’s disappointing. We tried to work hard in the second half, tried to push and create, but we were below the standards we’ve set.<\/p>\n“We weren’t at the races and it makes us a bit angry. Let’s hope it’s an off day and it doesn’t cost us too much.<\/p>\n“We expected them to start fast and we had to try and control that, and we never did.”<\/p>\nWhile Chelsea and Spurs will insist they only have eyes on themselves in the title run-in, the pair do clash next weekend in an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.<\/p>\nThey last met in the final four back in 2012 and it was Chelsea who ran out comfortable 5-1 winners on that occasion.<\/p>\nAnd Cahill, who came off the bench for Roberto Di Matteo’s side that afternoon, wants a reaction from the Blues after Sunday’s poor display.<\/p>\n“We have to react in the right way,” he said.<\/p>\n“We have to dust ourselves off and prepare for a huge semi-final, and then we go again with some important home games coming up.”<\/p>\nSpurs have won their last seven league games to keep the pressure on Chelsea, who also lost at home to Crystal Palace earlier in the month.<\/p>\nCahill wants a similar answer to that set-back and knows a fifth Premier League crown is not simply waiting for Chelsea at the end of the season.<\/p>\n“We reacted after Palace, we bounced back with two wins so it’s a similar thing,” he added.<\/p>\n“We have to go again. We are still in a great position.<\/p>\n“There are only six games left, and we are still in a good position. We need to realise it’s not over, we need to realise there are points to play for, and we have to dig in.<\/p>\n“No-one is going to give us this league, we have to work for it like we have done for the majority of this season.”<\/p>\nSource: PA<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n\t\tPlease enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\nFrom Football.co.uk<\/a>\nSouth Africa Today Sport \u2013 Sport News Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gary Cahill admits to feeling angry at Chelsea’s performance in defeat at Manchester United on Sunday but is expecting an immediate response. The Blues were beaten 2-0 at Old Trafford with their former boss Jose Mourinho scoring a moral victory as goals from Marcus Rashford and Ander Herrera pegged Chelsea back. The defeat means […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[371,30,120,80,188],"class_list":["post-4382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-premier-league","tag-football-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/092bc4aab4f84afa41ac3584c44c94ad.jpg\"){kind=link}