Chelsea 3 Man United 1: We only have ourselves to blame, says David Moyes

David Moyes was in no mood to make excuses after Chelsea extinguished Manchester United’s faint title hopes with a commanding win at Stamford Bridge.

Samuel Eto’o opened the scoring with a looping shot that deflected off Michael Carrick and past David De Gea in the 17th minute, and the striker swept home Gary Cahill’s cross just before half-time.

We did not defend well enough and did not get a chance like Chelsea got to score

David Moyes

The Cameroon international then made it 3-0 just after the break, before substitute Javier Hernandez slid in a consolation for the visitors.

United’s miserable day then got worse when captain Nemanja Vidić was shown a straight red card for a lunge on Eden Hazard.

The loss left Moyes’ side 14 points behind leaders Arsenal with 16 games left to play – and the Scot said: “We did not deserve to be 2-0 down at half time.

“We had a little bit of bad luck with the first one but we can’t blame anyone else but ourselves for the other two.

“We did not defend well enough and did not get a chance like Chelsea got to score, so we can only blame ourselves for that.

“I thought we played well in parts of the game. We played well at the start, we just missed the clinical finish. We didn’t score in their box and we didn’t defend well in our box.

“I thought we did well in between the two boxes, but then did not do what was required in the crucial areas.”

He continued: “We will keep going. We showed a lot of good things today. There is a progress we have to make and improve all round and myself and the club will try to do that.”