But one person who is not very excited about the win is Chelsea Manager Jose Mourinho who has said that he was not impressed by the way his team played, despite “escaping” with three points.
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Chelsea are 12 points adrift of fourth-placed Arsenal and, while Mourinho conceded that the task facing his side could be compared to that of a popular movie franchise, he stated it was attainable.
“If you ask me [if Chelsea can win] the title I would say “impossible mission”.
“I’m not saying I won’t sign (anyone)”.
“I’ve heard a lot of things about this, but no. Everything is good with him”. I’d be more than happy to be myself and the squad that I have now.
Whether that is mission (im)possible is open for debate, and their display on the pitch.
“Defensively it’s great to get the clean sheet and the defenders get the credit for that, but great work from the wide men tracking back and working as a team”, Terry added.
“I tried to find out why, but I don’t know”.
“Every top player that is not performing well they feel it probably more than the others that are not so good”, he added.
“We spoke together before the Stoke game”, said Hazard. “I hope everybody stays and I hope nobody comes”. I was feeling it and the players were feeling it too. I always look at players. We deserved to be enjoying the last four minutes with a 2-0, 3-0 or 4-0 result, but we couldn’t. “We deserve to be enjoying it but we couldn’t”, Mourinho said.
The caveat of the board’s support was that results had to improve and Chelsea have now won three times in eight games since.
Mourinho met with Hazard at the club’s Cobham training ground the day after Chelsea’s defeat at West Ham, in which the Belgian was disappointing. “Sorry, you’re still going to see me for a few time”.
Ask anyone you know who they’d have in their sides between Ronaldo and Hazard.
“We did and I played a very good game in the cup at Stoke”.
“I like to play number ten, where I played when I was young and you have more space, but I also like to play as a left-winger”.
Chelsea are again without Thibaut Courtois and Radamel Falcao.
Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has marked a December 5th home game against Bournemouth as a likely return date from his knee injury.
Right-back Branislav Ivanovic is expected to be available following his hamstring injury prior to the worldwide break. Robbie Brady’s quality on set pieces was again evident and the Republic of Ireland global had the best chance for the visitors in the closing stages when Asmir Begovic pushed away his swerving strike.
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