Conte gets bout of the blues

ROME - Antonio Conte fears Chelsea is in for a "very difficult" season after the Blues slumped to a 3-0 Champions League loss at Roma on Tuesday.

A downbeat Conte said he and his players all had to take responsibility for the Group C capitulation, which equaled the biggest loss of the Italian's Stamford Bridge reign.

Chelsea's Thibaut Courtois, whose second-half saves kept the score down, was also baffled by how the Premier League champion lost its "fighting spirit" after halftime as it became the first English side to lose in this season's Champions League.