The Premier League champions could have added a second six minutes from time through an unlikely source, when Nemanja Matic dropped the shoulders to ghost past three players on the edge of the area, but Ruddy denied the Serb with a sharp save low to his right.
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“No freebies” was Emenalo’s summary of Chelsea’s approach to blooding young players. I know that. I gave everything in training and on the pitch when I played.
The Premier League champions are playing 60 miles north of Maccabi’s home ground due to the club playing European games at the Sammy Ofer Stadium in Haifa due to a higher capacity, and Chelsea can qualify for the knockout stages if they win and Dynamo Kiev fail to beat Porto. But asked about the England worldwide in a press conference, Mourinho said as quoted by BBC: “I don’t want to analyse the boy because if I do you will get my words and you will put them into a different perspective about me wanting to sign him. First and foremost we have to get out of the group”.
“Sometimes you don’t know”.
“I don’t have a problem with Mourinho”.
Emenalo has a point.
Take Ruben Loftus-Cheek for an example.
“We did and I played a very good game in the [League] Cup in Stoke”. “It’s important that we do as well as we possibly can in that competition given our slow start in the league”. And we have to make sure that big team is not Chelsea.
Kevin De Bruyne is the obvious example of a player who could have saved them a lot of money had they afforded him more first-team opportunities, while Romelu Lukaku might have made a huge difference to the Blues this season had they not been quite so keen to cash in on the Belgium while still raw.
Midfielder Nemanja Matic said it was not him.
“In this moment I see so many people speaking, especially about the clubs in trouble, it’s incredible the lack of respect, the lack of ethics”, Mourinho said.
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Vardy, meanwhile, equalled Ruud Van Nistelrooy’s record of scoring in 10 consecutive Premier League games during Leicester’s 3-0 win over Newcastle United, moving his side to the top of the table.
