Some allege it was folly to drop Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard, Fernando Torres and Michael Essien, though Villas Boas would rightly point out that he has a bunch of players who appear unable to summon any kind of form at all.
“You can have your opinion but it was based on what was the best team in my thoughts,” he said.
“We will analyse strongly what we did wrongly because a couple of things need to get better. It is not impossible to recover from 3-1.”
