After watching his side beat Newcastle 3-0, and seeing the likes of Manchester City and Arsenal lose points to Liverpool and Norwhich, Chelsea now sit at the top of the table. On the contrary, Jose Mourinho moved quickly to quash suggestions that they are now favourites to wint he title.
“I want to stop with that story of the horses, but I don’t change my idea,” he said.
“Manchester City is a Jaguar. You cannot put an L-plate behind a Jaguar. We are what we are and we know where we want to go and this season, we have only one objective, which is to finish top four.
“I say as I feel it. I don’t feel the change. We are playing well and have been for a long time. People individually are in a good moment and we are getting results. We are top of the league and that’s something we can’t hide.”
Mourinho also went on to praise Eden Hazard, who has been a main player for Chelsea in this seasons run for the title.
He said: “Eden Hazard is this player, a player for some reason he didn’t get one single player of the month in this Premier League.
“And this performance today was just different than other performances because today he scored three goals. But he had other performances exactly the same as he did today, so it is quite surprising for me that such a young player with what he is showing this season is never player of the month.
“So I don’t know if it is something with him, or with us or this country is full of tremendous players.”
So yet again some strange comments from Jose. If all this is one huge mind-game, it certainly is working.
– Sam Rowbotham
