Goals are missing ingredient for Conte and Chelsea

SWANSEA, Britain: Antonio Conte may have kept alive Chelsea’s hope of Champions League football, but he admitted Saturday there has been something missing this season — goals.

The Blues manager achieved his 50th victory in the Premier League, a 1-0 win away to Swansea, thanks to Cesc Fabregas’s 50th goal in the competition, but Conte was dissatisfied by the London club’s fourth successive victory in all competitions.

“Our top scorer has scored only 12 goals, and if your best scorer has scored only 12 goals it means it is very difficult to fight for something this season,” said Conte.“That is the reality — the stats speak very well,” the Italian manager added.

“I think even today we could be more clinical to kill the game, but instead we kept the game in balance.“Against West Ham, it happened the same. We dominated and created many chances, but we scored only one goal.

“It could have happened the same today. I think this season we are not clinical and in the last period we are winning but also playing a little bit where we could kill the game but don’t.”