Every word Patrick Vieira said on Chelsea defeat, Cheikhou Kouyate, formation and more

Bad luck? I don’t think it’s bad luck. We tried to play our best Chelsea were too good on the day for us. We tried to frustrate them and I think we did that in the first half. But we tried our best and today wasn’t enough against a really good side.

Big games like that, against really good teams, you need to take your chances and we didn’t. We had a couple of chances but a few situations where we didn’t find the front two quick enough so they closed the gap straight away. We didn’t always make the right decision but I am really proud of the team for their approach to the game. In the first half, we were brilliant. But we couldn’t score the goal.

He will be okay. These kinds of games will build him and teach him how to manage emotions. The more games he plays like that, the better it will be for him and the rest of the young players that we have.

The way they moved the ball in the second half, we ran quite a lot and at times we got a little bit frustrated and we started to not put so much pressure on the ball. Jorginho started getting on the ball and it was really difficult for us because that allowed him to make better decisions. We have to keep improving and this is the aspect of the game - not getting frustrated - that we need to keep working together. But this is a team that won the Champions League, the FA Cup. They are in a different level than us but I'm proud about the way we approached the game, the way that we made it difficult for them. We have to build from those kinds of performances.

We had some issues on the right-hand side where Reece James was getting too much on the ball and we were suffering because our front two were working really hard. We switched to a four that allowed us to be a little bit more