GLENN MURRAY’S 82nd-minute goal for Bournemouth condemned Chelsea to its worst defeat of a wretched season Saturday, while Riyad Mahrez’s hat trick fired Leicester City top of the Premier League.

    A run of three games without defeat in all competitions had suggested an upturn in Chelsea’s fortunes, only for Eddie Howe’s promoted Bournemouth to condemn the champions to the side’s eighth defeat of the campaign.

    Murray was the match-winner at Stamford Bridge, scoring 99 seconds after coming on to secure a 1-0 victory and leave Chelsea just three points above the relegation zone and turn the spotlight firmly back onto their manager Jose Mourinho.

    “I am concerned, of course,” Mourinho told Sky Sports. “There is no chance that Chelsea will be fighting relegation. That is not the problem. It is that our objective is to finish top four.

    “Before this game it was realistic to think that our quality would take us out of this position, but maybe now we have to think about top six.”

    Mourinho had again elected to leave Diego Costa on the bench, only to turn to the striker at half -time as the home side looked for a breakthrough.(SD-Agencies)