Jose Mourinho branded Chelsea's first-half at Newcastle United the worst since his return to the club.

Mourinho saw his players fight back from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 at Newcastle yesterday.

Asked if that was as badly as the Blues had played under him, Mourinho said: "Yes, for sure.

"I have played so many matches with Chelsea over seven years and we have had some bad performances. I remember one at Middlesbrough in 2005, 2006, something like that, we were losing at half-time 3-0, so we have had a few.

"But this first half, I can rate as one of those performances, yes. I put it down to awful individual performances. When you have so many bad individual performances, it's impossible for a team to be a team."