Gary Cahill believes Chelsea can only overcome their recent difficulties by winning games again, starting with Saturday’s Premier League encounter against Arsenal.
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The left winger, who is contracted to the Bernabeu outfit till the summer of 2017, made his first appearance for Real Madrid at the weekend, coming on to replace Karim Benzema in the dying stages of Los Blancos’ 1-0 Liga win over Granada.
Mourinho plans to make wholesale changes for Wednesday’s game and when asked if Terry would play he replied: “Sure, of course”.
Falcao will start ahead of Diego Costa, who will be on the bench should he avoid retrospective punishment for his attack on Arsenal defenders Laurent Koscielny and Gabriel Paulista.
Walsall, whose squad includes former Chelsea youngster Milan Lalkovic and ex-Fulham keeper Neil Etheridge, now sit second in League One.
Falcao was in contention with Loic Remy for the striker role but appears to have won the nomination.
Chelsea midfielder Nemanja Matic is confident the Blues’ shaky start to the season is indeed over after back-to-back wins over Maccabi Tel Aviv and Arsenal. “I’m happy to play with them and learn from them“. “John Terry does not need me to speak with him”, the Portuguese boss explained, according to The Daily Mail.
“He knows that nothing is a risk, he knows that my decision only had one intention, which was to help my team to win the match“, Mourinho said.
“I prefer him like that”. “We had to bring our defensive line up and to play against Theo Walcott the best player we have is Zouma”.
However, the current campaign has proven to be anything but smooth sailing for Chelsea and following a poor start to the season, where the Blues have already lost three of their first six matches, Mourinho has found himself under a bit of pressure. The Belgian wasn’t the game changer that he has been for Chelsea innumerable times, but he certainly played a hand in the key events in front of goal.
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“I try to use the best solution that gives us the most efficiency offensively”, he said. We were top of the league last week and were still probably being criticised by a few for different systems and different players you chose.
