Chelsea’s poor run of form continued on Sunday when the English champions were held to a 3-3 draw with Aston Villa. The Blues went into a 1-0 lead courtesy of Frank Lampard and retook the lead at 3-2 in the 88th minute only for Ciaran Clarke to land a last-gasp point for the visitors.
It led to a clash between John Terry and Didier Drogba at the final whistle, although Carlo Ancelotti played it down and claimed that his team are doing everything they can to start winning games more regularly again.
“Everything is OK in the dressing room,” Ancelotti said, as he sought to accentuate the positives from a brighter second-half performance. “We’ve lost confidence but not our winning mentality because our bad moment has been too long. I think that in the last game [the 1-0 win over Bolton Wanderers], the play was good. Obviously, we have to improve but I think we are improving.
“Defensively, we lost something, obviously,” Ancelotti said. “I just want to say that Bruma played very well but without Alex and Ivanovic, we lose some energy on the high balls. We conceded the second goal for this reason. The third was different because we needed to have more attention in the box.”