There were certainly positives for Mourinho, who this week received the public backing of the club’s hierarchy for the second time this season, with Costa rescuing an indifferent display with his first goal in seven games and Eden Hazard again showing signs of a return to form.
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Hazard, last year’s PFA Player of the Year, started the season in poor form and looked a total shadow of the player he was last season.
Hazard says a change of his role could be needed to get the best out of him.
“I think there’s been a disallowed goal, a few penalty decisions that were blatant penalties that we haven’t got and I thought we should have had the penalty on the half-hour”.
“We spoke before the Stoke game”, Hazard said, according to Daily Mail. I’m happy with the players.
Jose Mourinho, especially when things aren’t going well for him, is often portrayed as some egomaniac intent on destroying players’ careers (especially the filthy young’ns) and then take credit for all their accomplishments in order to further his own footballing ambitions.
“I know for sure so many pundits we have were strikers and they know the feeling when you don’t score, you get heavier”.
“We had a real go of it, and we’re leaving disappointed because of the manner of their goal”. I think we deserve to be enjoying the last three, four minutes with a two, three, 4-0 result, relaxed. “Our build-up play was creating a lot of chances on goal, which we have been doing of late as well, so we are pleased with that and at half-time the manager was stressing we continue and the door will open, the goal will come, and thankfully it did”.
“When you’re not at at home and everybody, apart from those in a wee corner, are shouting at the referee and putting him under pressure, it’s very different”.
But he moved to dispel any notion of tension between him and his manager by saying: “I don’t have a problem with him”. “And we won, which obviously in this moment is very important”.
He had spoken to Mourinho about playing in the number 10 position prior to the end of Chelsea’s League Cup defence at Stoke, when Hazard missed the decisive penalty in a shootout.
Coming into this game, the Brazil-born forward had scored just twice in 10 Premier League starts.
Terry feels their performances have merited a greater points haul than they have achieved but is hopeful they can continue to improve after leapfrogging Norwich to go up to 15th position.
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“Maybe not this season because it will be hard, but next season and on”.
