Mourinho, who received support from Chelsea technical director Michael Emenalo on Friday ahead of the visit by Norwich, says he will not ask for a change of players in the forthcoming transfer window. I’m happy with the players. “Maybe Tom Cruise can do it”.
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A more glaring miss came in the final moments of the first half when Chelsea broke quickly with Kenedy eventually finding Costa in time and space on the right hand side of the Norwich box, only for the forward to shoot too close to keeper John Ruddy. The Barclays Premier League champions are 16th in the table, with three wins and seven losses in 12 games leaving them three points clear of the relegation zone and 15 adrift of leaders Manchester City.
“In the first half, we should be winning”.
“You don’t score goals, you get heavier”, Mourinho said of Costa’s state of mind. Now is Maccabi (Tel Aviv in the Champions League) and we hope we can win and maybe the Porto-Dynamo result allows us to qualify before the last match, which would be good. “Yes, he can do much better, but again, yes, one goal is very important”, Mourinho said.
Mourinho has also welcomes back Branislav Ivanovic to the team, the Serbian last played for the Blues on 3 October after picking up an injury while on global duty.
“That would have been very much undeserved”.
“But one of the teams that go up may also have a little bit of a collapse”. “Every game that you don’t score goals, you get five kilograms more”.
However, the Belgian playmaker impressed for the Blues as he was named man of the match and left the pitch to a standing ovation in the 90th minute in west London.
“The performances have been there of late, just not the results, ‘ he said, ‘so I am delighted to get the three points on the board and you could see the relief and the delight from the other players as well”. An honourable mention goes to Eden Hazard, who showed glimpses of a return to form.
Chelsea began to assert in the second half and it was quick thinking from the impressive Fabregas that made the crucial difference. I’m not nervous on the bench but I was a little bit disappointed with the way things went.
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Mourinho will be back in the technical area after serving a stadium ban for the last game, when Chelsea were beaten 1-0 away to Stoke City.
