Chelsea boss Graham Potter says he "takes responsibility" after their 2-0 home defeat to Aston Villa on Saturday.
Ollie Watkins struck first at Stamford Bridge, latching on to Chelsea defender Marc Cucurella's backwards header to lob home, before John McGinn's second-half drive put the game out of reach for the home side.
Potter later said: "The most important number is the one that goes against us. We have to do better.
"In terms of the game, you can see the players gave everything, they took on the responsibility, they tried, they had lots of entries into the box and shots and attacks.
"Ultimately we conceded a poor first goal which makes everything very emotional and rightly so. We're disappointed because we're 1-0 down but the players responded well they kept on responding throughout. The second goal is disappointing because we started the second half well.
"But if you look at the stats apart from the main one there is a lot of positives there. But at the moment into doesn't feel too positive.
"After a defeat there is always a disappointment. There is always a feeling we have not moved forward, that's fair to say. We have to analyse the performance and look at the things we've done well and what we can do better. Defensively we've left ourselves too open but again if you look at the stats of the game we had chances ourselves, we had one-v-ones, but the most important thing, putting the ball into the net, we were second-best.
"I don't like to blame anybody, I have to take responsibility. We are a team, we have to stay together, we are together. We win or lose together.
"We will recover and we will prepare for the next game. We need to respond, that's clear. But we look forward to it."
