CHELSEA'S equaliser may have come too late to pick up all the points at Swansea - but it may have just been enough to save Andre Villas-Boas' job.

Chelsea had to wait until the 93 rd minute at The Liberty Stadium for the deflected Jose Bosingwa shot, which went in off the calf of Swansea fullback Neil Taylor.

Many had to re-write their professional obituaries for the hapless Chelsea boss (pic), who showed a remarkable degree of relief in his drained features as the ball hit the back of the net.

Villas-Boas said: “In the second half very, very good: a big effort from everybody to invert things.

“I think if the goal could have come a little bit earlier, we could have gone on to a second because of the motivation and the momentum that we would have gathered.

“But the Swansea defenders held the lead. And we left it very late and had no time to continue to pursue the second goal.”

The late equaliser cruelly dashed the hopes of the home side, who dominated a first half in which Chelsea looked clueless.

The Blues boss conceded: “I think a different first half from the second. I think in the second half we were very competent and we managed to create a lot of problems for Swansea by pressing them hard.

“And in the first half it was the opposite: we conceded the initiative to them. And they found the spaces that they needed to create us problems.

“I think in the first half, if I am not wrong, I think the goal comes in our period when we started to get things right, to have more of the ball ad create our own chances. But we made a mistake from the set play unfortunately, and let Swansea go 1-0 up.”