Chelsea legend Ruud Gullit has branded Jose Mourinho's team "boring". Gullit says Mourinho's cautious mindset hasn't changed since Roman Abramovich brought his first spell at the club to an end in 2007 for a lack of style.

He told the Sunday Mirror: "After a great, attractive first half of the season, Jose Mourinho put the handbrake on.

"His team IS boring when, in my opinion, the players he has deserve much better. Mourinho deserves his negative label because of the calculated way he makes Chelsea play.

"I find it astonishing, because his players are capable of brilliant football, as we saw on Wednesday for a brief moment when they were losing 1-0 at Leicester and were suddenly forced to put their foot on the accelerator.

"You could see their hunger to attack and the joy that playing like that brought to the players. They loved it. They were sparkling. Then, as soon as Chelsea were winning 2-1, Mourinho wanted to bring on Kurt Zouma, the defensive midfielder, to keep everything close up.

"When Zouma was waiting to come on, Chelsea scored a third goal, yet still the change was made to seal the victory. Why on earth did Mourinho do that when it was clear that his players wanted to keep attacking and demolish Leicester?

"It is because Mourinho hasn't changed. He has forever got his hand on the handbrake."