The newspaper reports that the forward is set to recover from a rib injury sustained in the Blues’ Capital One Cup defeat at Stoke last night, after conducting precautionary scans today. “He is one of the best I have worked with”, he added. He may be sacked on Halloween, should the Blues lose to Liverpool.
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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is expected to be in the dugout for Saturday’s game with Liverpool – despite facing a misconduct charge. The Portuguese manager recently signed a deal with the club that will see him stay at Stamford Bridge until 2019, and any action the club decides to take before that time will see them lose a significant amount of money.
Asked if he had had any more reassurances since the weekend about his job, Mourinho said: “I don’t need more”.
“I’m really sure that Saturday will be a big game, but we can still be in the top four of the league if we win games”. “They put in a great performance, very resolute, very dynamic and so they deserve their win tonight”, Wenger said of the match. I think they [Chelsea’s players] go with sadness but with a positive feeling. For me it would be a fantastic situation if the players are against me, then I can say, “We aren’t getting the results because the players are against me”. “People were saying there are things more important than results”. He also appears regularly on numerous television and radio talk shows all across the country.
“There is a lot of emotion in football and sometimes we say things we regret”.
He said: “The spirit is good and we are not affected by the situation”.
– Mourinho has only won one of his previous four meetings with Klopp, all in the 2012-13 Champions League (D1 L2), including the semi-final where Dortmund beat Real Madrid 4-3 on aggregate.
Nine penalty-takers scored before Jack Butland brilliantly saved Eden Hazard’s kick after Loic Remy’s last-ditch equaliser had taken the fourth-round tie into extra-time following Jonathan Walters’ opener.
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If Norwich were looking for a few crumbs of comfort as they head north to face Manchester City this weekend, the news that David Silva could be fit to play was not what they would have been hoping for.
