Chelsea defender Kurt Zouma has revealed Jose Mourinho swapped text messages with other club staff during the Blues' 1-0 loss to Stoke City, despite serving a stadium ban.

Mourinho was forced to watch the match from the team hotel, but that didn't stop him from getting his views on the contest across to the players and other staff according to Zouma.

"The pre-match chat happened at the hotel and when we arrived at the ground, he was no longer with us.

"It is the other coach [Steve Holland] who took charge and at half-time they spoke by messaging – they swapped text messages or they called each other I think.

"The assistant told us what he had said and then he [Mourinho] joined us after and told us we had played a good match. He was disappointed, like everyone because we lost. I think we could have won that match. We deserved to win it, I think, but we lost."