Chelsea interim manager Guus Hiddink said Tottenham failed to show the necessary control to win the Premier League. We’ll be on top of that, it’s harming the team. It’s the same situation as against Spurs.
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If Steve [Holland] and I have a big dispute, we have to fight each other out of this hall.
“All the teams still fighting to avoid relegation deserve the same approach in our seriousness”.
“Some (Spurs players) lost their control”.
Hiddink was reluctant to address the full scale of the fallout on Friday.
Sunderland 1-1 Chelsea: Sunderland will be battling for everything tomorrow while the Blues have little left to play for so you’d be forgiven for thinking this should be a home win.
“It was a hot game, there is always this rivalry but there were too many chest-to-chest situations”. It’s their judgement, I don’t have any comments on that.
“Their bench and Cesc were talking to each other loudly in Spanish so I took him away and the shoving started”.
“It’s important for ourselves, for our pride and for our enjoyment of football”, Hiddink said at the press conference.
The Dutchman, who will make way for Antonio Conte at season’s end, said champions – as Leicester have proven – require cool heads.
Hiddink will resist wholesale changes at the Stadium of Light and has no plans to promote young players who have not played for the first team so far this season.
“To win a Ballon d’Or or whatever then you need more consistency in performances”, Hiddink added.
Hiddink said: “He is coming back and participating well, for me it was new to see him in life. That’s a nice scenario”.
Eden Hazard’s equaliser against Spurs launched the Leicester party.
John Terry made a successful return from injury on Monday night so he should continue at the back but Kurt Zouma and Loic Remy remain out injured.
When asked about the party, Hiddink told reporters: “Then I hope I will be invited!”
‘£22,000 – that’s about 10 bottles of champagne, the standard of champagne I don’t know.
The 23-year-old has returned from his loan spell at Reading after signing on transfer deadline day last summer but is ineligible to play for remainder of the season.
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Thibaut Courtois is set to return in goal after completing his two match suspension so Asmir Begovic will drop to the bench.
