The Chelsea manager says that the piece that appeared on the club's official website was "objective", rather than part of a campaign, and insists is no wider agenda

Jose Mourinho has defended an article which appeared on Chelsea’s official website, entitled ‘Penalty puzzle’, highlighting the
club's lack of spot-kicks this season.

The Blues noted that the they have been awarded just two penalties in the Premier League all season, and compared that tally with previous campaigns and other top teams in England.

The article concluded that the amount of penalties Chelsea have been awarded “seems abnormally low”, but Mourinho insists that the article was “very objective”, and has questioned the amount of attention afforded to it.

“You give so much importance to that article, I read it,” he told reporters. “It’s not an opinion article, it’s not something that can lead to discussion. It’s numbers.

“It’s like stats, how many goals, assists. The number of teams a penalty has against is just another stat, it’s not open to opinion, it’s just numbers, pure numbers and nothing more than that.”