Chelsea came from a goal down at Watford on Saturday to make it two wins from two Premier League games for Conte, with Diego Costa scoring an 87th-minute victor.
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Conte was once again animated on the touchline as Chelsea staged their comeback following Etienne Capoue’s strike for Watford, with Batshuayi scoring from the bench and another substitute, Cesc Fabregas, playing Costa in behind for the victor.
And it was left to Costa to supply the late euphoria, just as he did in the opening weekend win over West Ham, as the Spain worldwide latched onto a wonderful Cesc Fabregas pass to slot home.
“I feel good because I saw the right commitment, the right spirit from my team”, he is quoted as saying by BBC Sport.
“I don’t understand that other players or managers or press all say bad [things] about him”, Conte said.
I think for the English league, this is not good. Watford are a good team but we won and we are happy. “We try to win all the games like he wants”.
“After a bad season like previous year s, it s not easy to start in a good way and win games, and it won t be easy, so we must know that we have to continue”. “We are working very hard and will continue to work very hard”.
“I’m pleased for the substitutes that came off the bench”.
“We know the coach has his idea of football and he tries to teach it to us”, Kante said.
“It s important to change the situation compared to last season and we are trying to do that with all our strength. He s an important player for us and he had to stay concentrating in the game”.
“We got in behind a few times and in the second half we knew they would come at us and knew they had a lot of quality”. Both goals were our errors.
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“It is early, we have a good team, but of course we want to be the champions”, the former Leicester city midfielder added.
