Chelsea's title bid could be Rover and out

Carlo Ancelotti admitted that Chelsea's hopes of winning the English Premiership suffered a blow after a 1-1 draw at Blackburn.

Chelsea went up through Didier Drogba's 22nd league goal of the season but were punished by El-Hadji Diouf's second half header.

Chelsea dropped out of the top two for the first time since the second weekend of the season and are now four points behind Man U and two behind Arsenal, but with a game in hand.

The Chelsea manager said: "It will be more difficult now to win the title but it's not impossible. We are disappointed because I think we lost two points here, and important points. We had prepared well for the game, we had tried to win to cancel out the game against Inter and for one hour we did well.

"It's not an easy moment for us and we have to maintain our confidence and our composure. Man U are top of the league and we have to do better and leave this behind us as soon as possible."

Chelsea travel to Portsmouth on Wednesday and Ancelotti said they could afford no more slip-ups.
"It's important to win on Wednesday," added Ancelotti.

"Our difficulties started against Man City in an unbelievable game (Chelsea lost 4-2). We have less probability to win this title but we want to give it our best. We need to work together and the next game against Portsmouth is very important. We can stay close to Manchester United."