Costa’s behaviour once again came under the scrutiny of the TV cameras during Chelsea’s 2-1 at Watford on Saturday.
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And Heurelho Gomes could only deflect Fabregas’s shot into the path of Michy Batshuayi for Chelsea’s equaliser before his wonderful pass teed up Diego Costa for the victor.
“We all know Cesc is a great technical player with a good pass and good assists and I made this substitution because I wanted more quality”, Conte said.
“I think also that its important to create the right feeling because me and my staff try to give them 110 per cent in our work every day and, for this reason, I also ask this of my players”. At the end, I think we deserved to win.
In turn, he’ll likely continue to meticulously scour the market for the best deal possible, as he isn’t the only Premier League manager struggling to find value for money for the right personnel this summer, with Arsene Wenger in the same predicament and perhaps unfairly coming under intense criticism for his approach.
Meanwhile, Watford boss Walter Mazzarri is still waiting for his first win and he was upset with their collapse in the final 10 minutes. In these two games, we saw this.
Chelsea face Bristol Rovers in the League Cup tomorrow evening, hoping to maintain their 100% start to the season.
“I am pleased with his attitude”.
The Colombia worldwide was omitted from Zinedine Zidane’s starting line-up for the Champions League final last season and could now be set for a big-money move to Stamford Bridge.
“It’s always hard to come back but we did great”, the Belgium global told Chelsea’s official website.
“Fitness might come into it a little bit, but it’s still early in the season and we’re all finding out feet”, the defender said to the Watford Observer. When you have many players thinking about the team and not himself, it’s important. Normally these wins are very important to improve, to transfer the work, for our confidence to rise, because after a bad season like past year it’s not easy to start, to win two games.
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“But in Italy we d say that we complicated our own lives”. “Then we played only 20 minutes as I wanted us to play, today we played good football for 70 minutes”. Both goals were from our mistakes.
