Villas-Boas: No trophies will be a failure

Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has conceded that a second successive season without a trophy at Stamford Bridge would be a failure.

A poor run of form has seen the Blues slip 10 points behind Premier League leaders Manchester City but the Portuguese boss remains confident that he will not be sacked.

“I have that assurance, conversations have been ongoing with the board and they have been fully supportive,” he said.

“There are no schedules for achieving different kinds of things.”

“We are not avoiding our responsibilities towards this year, that is for sure. If we fail this year, like we failed last year, we were not up to our standards, so we need to see where we missed.”

Chelsea have lost three of their past four matches in all competitions, twice against Liverpool and also against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League, leaving them with work to do in order to qualify for the knockout rounds.

Villas-Boas refused to alter his attacking policy however that has been seen his side become very vulnerable on the counterattack.

And the 34-year-old remains confident of success come the end of the campaign.

“If we look back at our position that we finished in the league at the end of the season, we would look back at this period always as a period when we might just have lost track of our points,” he said.

“I don’t care if it’s my best time or worst time as a football coach, this is about the football club, not me.”