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With John Terry suspended he put Frank Lampard Duff and Eidur Gudjohnsen on the substitutes' bench but

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With John Terry suspended he put Frank Lampard, Duff and Eidur Gudjohnsen on the substitutes' bench but, after falling behind to a fourth-minute headed goal from Patrick Kluivert, the Chelsea manager controversially decided to send on all three players at half-time.In blizzard conditions that had put the 4pm kick-off in doubt for much of the day, Chelsea were reduced to 10 men when they lost Bridge just two minutes into the second-half after a challenge with Alan Shearer "I don't know what happened," said the Newcastle captain. "It was a big risk," Mourinho said of his triple substitution. "I am the manager, I make the decisions and I am responsible for the defeats, not the victories I felt it was the best thing for the team at the time. "We clashed and he got his foot stuck in the ground."Cudicini was sent off in injury time after he tripped Shola Ameobi outside the area and Glen Johnson was forced to deputise in goal. I will see when I get on to the plane tonight, I will think about the team I will put out in Barcelona because it's time to think about that and not time to think or to cry about injuries."The Chelsea manager, who is also without Didier Drogba and Arjen Robben, also insisted that winning the Premiership, the Champions' League, the FA Cup and the Carling Cup in one season was not impossible."It's possible because I did it in Portugal when we won the League, the Uefa Cup, the Portuguese Cup and the Portuguese Super Cup," he said.

Gallas has a groin problem and is doubtful but Bridge is definitely out of the game with a suspected broken ankle.After an extraordinary game at St James' Park which Chelsea finished with just nine men - following Bridge's injury and a red card for the goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini - Mourinho said that he would not "cry about injuries"."I never like to cry on injuries I don't think it's the best way to look at it. Substitutes not used: Roche (gk), Harris.Referee: S Bennett (Kent).Booked: Tottenham Carrick. Nottingham Forest Morgan, Melville.Man of the match: Commons.Attendance: 35,640.. We needed good service from Kelly and Atouba and it seemed to be getting worse and worse. We lacked movement on the flanks, and our crossing was below par."Atouba takes a lot of risks One day you love him - today was different. He is only 22 and one day he will learn."It was just the kind of game, he conceded, which would have benefited from an accomplished wide player.

Substitutes not used: Cerny (gk), Bunjevcevic, Mendes.Nottingham Forest (5-4-1): Doyle; Curtis, Melville, Morgan, Doig (King, 89), Rogers; Perch, Powell, Evans (Thompson, 73), Commons (Bopp, 89); Taylor. Someone like Andy Reid, in fact.Goals: Defoe (45) 1-0; Taylor (56) 1-1.Tottenham Hotspur (4-4-2): Robinson; Kelly, Naybet, King, Atouba; Davies, Carrick, Brown, Ziegler (Keane, 65); Kanout?Mido, 65), Defoe. "We needed to score a second goal and we just couldn't do it," he said. "Forest played a 5-4-1 formation and in order to break that down we had to use the flanks.

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