Chelsea's John Obi Mikel frustrated by referee's decisions in defeat to Liverpool

Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel has suggested that referee Mark Clattenburg made a couple of wrong decisions in Saturday's match against Liverpool.

Jose Mourinho's side suffered a 3-1 defeat to Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool - their sixth Premier League loss of the season.

Mikel believes that Clattenburg was wrong to allow two minutes of additional time in the first half to over-run, while the Nigerian also feels that Lucas Leiva should have been sent off for a second yellow-card offence.

"We got the goal and if we went into the break 1-0 up it would have been much easier but the referee played two minutes and 30 seconds [stoppage time] and if we'd played the exact minutes we would have gone in at 1-0," Mikel told the club's official website.

"Then the referee gave me a yellow card for my first foul and just after that Lucas committed a foul - for me and for everyone else it should have been a [second] yellow card.

'Everyone can see how much hard work we are putting in and we are playing well, but the results are not coming for us. We just need a bit of that luck that we don't have at the minute, but you can see the team is giving it everything, we're working very hard."

Mourinho's future at Stamford Bridge remains in doubt after guiding the team to just three league wins in 11 games.