“He was very good with me when I was at Espanyol and he was at Real Madrid”.
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“Everybody was on the bench. We are happy with the decision”.
Jose Mourinho’s decision to drop Diego Costa left his side lacking in attack, with an interchangeable front four – spearheaded by Eden Hazard – only threatening on the break.
It clearly angered the striker, who did not take part in the pre-match warm-up and tossed his bib towards Mourinho as the game neared its conclusion.
“It is hard to play against them but we were comfortable with the ball and we had our chances, which is not easy to create against them”.
“For me his behaviour was normal”. They give conditions, without any kind of pressure, for the young players to develop in the team. It was the best Chelsea performance of the season, against a unsafe team.
They managed to end a three-game losing streak in the league by beating Norwich 1-0 last Saturday and then followed that up with a 4-0 Champions League victory at Maccabi Tel Aviv on Tuesday so they might have turned a corner.
Chelsea have recently been linked to English strikers Vardy and Harry Kane.
Kane’s two goals against West Ham last weekend means he has now scored 12 goals for Spurs in just 14 London derby matches.
“I learn how to live without the happiness of winning matches”, he said.
“A number 10 for me is an eight-and-a-half when the team loses the ball, and the number 10 is a nine-and-a-half when the team has the ball”. “I don’t think we go to business”.
Kane has a long way to go before he can name those accolades among his achievements, but the England global is doing all the right things at the moment, to ensure that he will always be remembered at White Hart Lane. “Still one month but I don’t think so”.
“I think we can look to December with enthusiasm”.
So far this term, Chelsea have conceded 23 goals in 13 Premier League fixtures – the sixth-worst record in the top flight.
Alli joins Erik Lamela (groin), Nabil Bentaleb, Nacer Chadli and Alex Pritchard (all ankle) on the sidelines, but Pochettino can recall Kyle Walker, Mousa Dembele and Danny Rose after the trio were rested for Thursday’s Europa League clash Qarabag in Azerbaijan. We’re a bit disappointed. And they will get more and more when January comes.
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We have good feelings for each other. His second half wasn’t much better and he was rightly booked for a foul on Christian Eriksen. We’re a very young side.
