Chelsea manager José Mourinho sat down for his pre-match press conference ahead of the midweek clash against relegation threatened Leicester city. The Portuguese manager revealed that there are no plans to make major changes from the Arsenal game.
When asked about the injury concerns on Oscar and Diego Costa, Mourinho claimed that he is ready to take both the players to King Power Stadium. The Brazilian midfielder who was subbed at half-time against Arsenal was alleged to be admitted in hospital for a reported concussion.
I really don’t know how Oscar is,’ reported Mourinho, ‘but the most important thing is that he is not in hospital.
‘He went immediately to his house yesterday, slept at home, and he should be arriving [today].
‘I don’t know about Diego Costa. I have to think about if it deserves a gamble or if we wait a few more days to be completely sure. If it was a player without an injury history I would play him tomorrow, but because he is a player with a history I have to think about that.
The match comes too soon for the Blues after the Arsenal game, and it is natural for the media to repeat some of the questions that was put forth during the post match conference at the Emirates.
Jose Mourinho joked about a future brand of football devoid of goals after his Premier League champions-elect Chelsea were labelled “boring.”
“I ask myself if in the future, when I am a granddad and I am at home with my grandsons, and maybe the future of football is a beautiful green grass carpet without goals.
And in that beautiful grass pitch the team with more ball possession wins the game. Because everybody says ‘oh, my team plays fantastically well, we had great ball possession. ‘Good.’ Oh, we build very well.’ Good!
It looks like the goals are not important. Sometimes you speak about ‘boring’ and you consider boring a team that scores as many goals as we do, but you don’t consider boring a team that has 70 percent of the ball possession and cannot win the game. It’s quite a big contradiction…
Football started a few centuries ago and the objective was one, but now it looks like the objective is another one!
For me, I am very simple in my analysis. Football is about putting the ball in the net of your opponent and stopping your opponent from scoring.”