The former England captain has since missed Chelsea’s last three matches, and will not feature in tonight’s trip to Carrow Road in which the Blues could move to within five points of fifth-placed Manchester United, who don’t play until Wednesday night.
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If Guus Hiddink wants the job, he should nearly certainly be offered the permanent manager position at Chelsea.
Meanwhile, the reigning champions are on an 11-game unbeaten streak after subduing Southampton, 2-1, at their own home field of St. Mary’s Stadium also last Saturday, as per BBC Sport. “We have games coming up but like I said before it’s best to have a loan in his situation”. We’re expecting at least a week out with the hamstring injury, possibly more.
Diego Costa would double the visitors’ lead in first half stoppage time after he lifted the ball over the Norwich goalkeeper having been played in by Bertrand Traore.
The current Premier League champions went ahead courtesy of a goal from Kenedy, who netted the fastest goal of the season, clocked at only 39 seconds from the start.
“If all the players are able to perform to full potential, we will fight for our place in the European competitions”, the Dutch added.
“That way he can get used to us and the club can make a proper judgement on him in performances and training, then it’s for mutual parties the best thing”. So I’m satisfied about the result we get, but I always like to be a little bit critical in the way we could have finished it off more early. But when I looked at the game I think we were a bit sloppy in finishing of.
“Everyone knows how we started in December”.
Norwich’s task was to bounce back from defeat at Leicester, when they conceded the only goal of the game a minute from time. “The team did well with draws and victories so in a relatively short time we’ve accomplished that in-between target”.
“He is offside. I’ve seen it back on the video”, Neil said. “I haven’t seen it yet but, if so, I can understand people are frustrated in the other dressing room”, he said.
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Despite the second goal just before the break, Norwich remained positive as the second half got underway and got one back nearly instantly. “The last 15, 20 minutes were very tough but in the first half we were in control at 2-0 up”. Diego Costa gets bad press for his antics, but his ability means he has the chance to be a game changer for Chelsea.
