“Diego is the type of player who always tries”. No problems, no problems at all. “I didn’t tell them [if he will strat], so they must be the ones to know”.
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“I think at the moment, we’re in a position where what matters first and foremost is the number of points we have at the end of the game”, Bournemouth defender Sylvain Distin said. “I can not say better than ever, because normally he trains very well”.
Here are five things you need to know about Chelsea v Bournemouth. It is fundamental to have him back.
“He’s done well and I think this is one more good side of us to be a team in every second of the game and Eden has done very well today”.
“Diego Costa is selected”, Mourinho said.
As for the game against Bournemouth, I am with Andy in that I am not sure Costa will play.
Mourinho had hoped to have captain John Terry, Ramires and Radamel Falcao available, but the trio remain out.
Nemanja Matic was pictured training with a protective face mask on Thursday. Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe is relishing the challenge of the trip to Stamford Bridge after last weekend’s dramatic draw against Everton.
The Portuguese was optimistic following what he described as Chelsea’s best performance of the season, which included a third successive cleansheet.
Asked whether Costa has to be handled differently, Mourinho replied: “A bit, but not much”.
Over the last few days, rumours linking Paris Saint-Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Stamford Bridge have intensified. He got three guys when he could’ve got 25. Not lucky ones. As a team, they performed really well: good discipline, communication, reading of the game. If he wants to be a manager he must have a first day. He (Mourinho) has a record that is unrivalled. “If some journalists hear that there are problems, they hear it, but I never heard about it”. He’s a party boy and it is that, more than anything else, that I am sure annoys Mourinho. “We are playing the champions”.
“They consult me about the best time to do it and I said a time from Christmas which is busy”. Is the ultimate “expression of how we are all feeling”, to use Ivanovic’s own phrase, reflected in the team’s lacklustre performances since August? “He got the feedback, even a written feedback because we analysed his performance in great detail, and I thought it was good for him to get it in a written document with graphics on every aspect”.
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His last Chelsea appearance was actually the 2-1 home defeat to Crystal Palace at the end of August. I have to be cautious and you don’t know what is waiting for you around the corner.
