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Conte speaks with one of the assistant referees during the Emirates encounter

Conte speaks with one of the assistant referees during the Emirates encounter

The defending Premier League champions suffered a 2-1 loss to Arsenal in the first leg of the League Cup semi-final at The Emirates on Wednesday night.

"I felt in the second half basically we looked always like we could win this game and that's what we did".

However, the hosts equalised five minutes later when Nacho Monreal's header bounced off Marcos Alonso and Antonio Rudiger before going into the net.

Both Arsenal goals received a helping hand from Chelsea defender Antonio Ruediger as the semifinal meeting of London rivals came to life after a sterile, scoreless first leg two weeks ago.

Conte lamented the lack of options on his substitutes' bench in his post-match media duties, and the Chelsea hierarchy are working hard to bolster his squad in what remains of the January transfer window.

Chelsea suffered the blow of losing Willian to injury after half an hour, allowing Ross Barkley to enter for his debut following a £15million move from Everton. With none of them achievable so far they have been forced into trying to sign Dzeko on a permanent basis, although if getting the Bosnian proves impossible they may yet return to Crouch with the Stoke City man the most likely back-up choice.

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The club is to take the best decision for the team. "Players will move on but hopefully not Hazard". Frank Lampard fears for former club Chelsea over their inability to compete in the transfer market.

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"This is more the club's decision, I repeat - having said it in yesterday's press conference - but for as long as the player is mine, I will field him because he's demonstrated to me his sense of belongingness, professionalism and seriousness", he said.

"I don't know what personal terms were offered to the player, as I am not his agent".

"I don't like to speak about the transfer market, the club decides our transfer market, as I said before my task is to try to improve my players", he said. "In this competition we had a good run this season and we had great desire to play at Wembley".

"It is exciting that we have a cup final to go to but let's not take our focus off what really needs to be done which is obviously the league and the Europa League", he told talkSPORT.

Mourinho treasures every single title his sides can possibly win and will be desperate to see his team progress over a team they've defeated in their last three previous FA Cup meetings by a score of 13-0.

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