Luiz Felipe Scolari oversaw Chelsea's 1-0 win at Wigan - but does not believe it will put extra pressure on his Premier League title rivals.Both Manchester United and Arsenal have already dropped points and although the Blues were far from their best at The JJB, they have made a decisive start to life under the Brazilian.

Scolari's former Portugal charge Deco was the man responsible for delivering the points, grabbing his second goal in as many games with a delightful free-kick after three minutes, but Scolari was eager to downplay Chelsea's advantage.

Asked if Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger would be feeling any added strain so early in the campaign, he said: "After two games only? No.

"It is only two games - if it was the last games of the season, maybe there would be pressure but now? No.

"I think teams have time now to lose some points."

Scolari, who would not shed any light on the club's reportedly renewed interest in Robinho or the sale of Andriy Shevchenko to AC Milan, admitted his side did not scale the heights of their opening-day thrashing of Portsmouth.

"I understand that we didn't play like last week but I also understand the reasons why," he said.

"Wigan played better than Portsmouth, they pressured us and they were playing at home - the people can help more than they can when we are at Stamford Bridge.

"Also, I have had many problems this week. Michael Ballack played with a little injury, Michael Essien has not been training for 10 days, then trains for two and I needed him to play 90 minutes and Mikel John Obi is out.

"But they fought and it was possible to win the game. It is fantastic for Chelsea and fantastic for our group because we have confidence and we have six points."

Latics boss Steve Bruce was disappointed with the result after watching his players put in an admirable performance in defeat.

He said: "In my eyes, yes, we did enough. I think most people who witnessed it would say that too.

"But they have given everything. When you play these big teams sometimes you have to ride your luck. We didn't have to do that because we played well against them.

"When you analyse it, our goalkeeper didn't have a save to make. That's almost unheard of against Chelsea and they will go away thinking 'we nicked that one'.

"We had an outstanding chance to beat them and at no stage did they look like they would rip us apart like they did Portsmouth."

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