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Boss Frank Lampard admits his Chelsea players are already feeling tired after their last Premier League loss to Wolves.
Pedro Neto scored in the fifth minute of injury time to claim a 2-1 victory for the hosts.
Olivier Giroud opened the scoring for the visitors four minutes after the break before a deflected effort from Daniel Podence brought the Wolves up.
Kurt Zouma hit the crossbar for Chelsea and the hosts also received a late and later penalty penalty.
The victory would have brought the visitors to the top of the Premier League, but they fell to back-to-back losses in the top flight for the first time in more than a year.
Lampard said: “There could be some tiredness. I hate to say it after a loss because it feels like an excuse, but even in the first 60 minutes, when we were the best team, we had nothing to do with ourselves.”
“We have traveled to Everton, we returned and then we traveled to Wolves, but they are all in the same boat.
“We have a couple of area injuries, which means I can’t make too many changes, so I understand that side.
“They’ve given us different types of games in these last two. Everton made it difficult for us to break them, we weren’t successful with that, and the Wolves played a counter-attack style.
“The players have to feel that on the field because the message was very clear about their counterattack and the people who could hurt us and that is disappointing.”
Nuno Espirito Santo greeted his side by saying: “We always mention the character when things are going well and then we forget when things are not going so well that the character is still there.
“Soccer is played until the last minute of the referee’s whistle, but the character leaves with the faith, commitment and support of others. The rest is a game and situations can happen.
“When we work as hard as the guys did today, we get our rewards. But happiness lasts for an hour and after an hour we are thinking about Burnley and how difficult he is.”
However, the victory came at a price, as Leander Dendoncker and Boly suffered injuries.
Nuno added: “Let’s see what’s happening with Leander. At half-time he couldn’t continue.
“Willy had a problem at the end and the doctors will see it and we can tell what is really happening.”
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