Graham Potter stays positive despite Chelsea defeat to Borussia Dortmund - 'We're a team in progress'

Graham Potter bemoaned Chelsea's poor defending and bad luck after a 1-0 Champions League defeat to Borussia Dortmund, but insisted he saw plenty of positives in the performance. The Blues created a string of good chances at Signal Iduna Park, the best coming when Joao Felix struck the crossbar, but they couldn’t find a way past Gregor Kobel in the Dortmund goal. Ad Karim Adeyemi then produced the decisive moment with a superb individual goal on the counter-attack, putting on the afterburners to leave Enzo Fernandez in his wake before rounding Kepa Arrizabalaga to tap in.

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I thought we were the dominant team in the second half. It is half-time in the tie, we have to regroup. Ferdinand sees Chelsea positives but blasts failure to sign striker 'Jude all day' — Hargreaves, Ferdinand and Cole debate Bellingham and Fernandez »It is a counter-attack from a corner, we were close to scoring ourselves.

They broke on us. It is disappointing, we need to do better. Apart from that, we were really, really good, we just have to score.

«I thought we had good attacking movements, clarity in terms of how we wanted to attack and got into right areas. The attitude was really positive as well.” Chelsea are on a poor run of form, winning just two of their last 13 games under Potter. That