Watching his side drop points at home for the fourth time this season, Luiz Felipe Scolari admitted we needed to do more to break down a determined Newcastle defence.

The Brazilian saw the Blues dominate the game, forcing a string of top-level saves from Shay Given in the visiting goal and generally pinning Joe Kinnear's team in their own half.

The Magpies' interim manager admitted he had brought his side to London in search of a solitary point, and was delighted with the outcome. Scolari had no complaints about this approach.

'Newcastle were very good, fantastic and played for a draw, one million per cent right,' he began. 'They didn't come here to play for a win, they played for a draw and maximum lose 1-0 or 2-0. They were better than us, thinking of a draw and drew. We were thinking to win and didn't win.

'We had 24 times to shoot in goal, and 10 times on goal. Newcastle didn't shoot one ball on goal in 90 minutes,' he assessed. 'Seventy per cent of the ball was with us, but we did not score a goal. If we scored a first goal maybe we score three or four. Today we didn't win one point, we lost two points.'

Liverpool's goalless draw at home to Fulham ensures we remain on top of the Premier League, nine points ahead of third-placed Manchester United who play at Aston Villa this evening.

Nine points have no been dropped at the Bridge though, compared with a perfect away record. Scolari offered a possible explanation.

'We need to win away. Sometimes it is easier to win away than at Stamford Bridge because away sometimes the fans pressure these teams to attack, here they don't want to attack.

'It is a strategy and [worked] very well. I said congratulations to the coach and the team because they had a strategy to draw and [did it] very well.'

Kinnear confirmed this exchange, and explained his decisions for the match.

'We knew it was going to be a difficult match and had key players drop out, so we have been planning to force Chelsea to play in front of us which I thought we did very well,' he said.

'I brought Michael Owen in and played him a lot deeper than we normally would, and then lived on what we could do, and Shay Given pulled off two-world class saves.'

Scolari believes it requires more work at Cobham in order to find a solution for this problem.

'I tried to show to my players they play with 4-4-2 and try to counter-attack us, the positions we need to attack more but we have two or three balls to score and we didn't. This is football,' he sighed.

'In training we need to change sometimes the position of the players, [I will] try to do my best in the next week or more time, and when we receive one team like Newcastle here with 10 players in the back, we need a situation to win.'

There will be further manager and player reaction to the result on Chelsea TV's Monday Night Live at 6.30pm on Monday.