Jose Mourinho confirmed after the game that the substitution of Kurt Zouma coming on to replace John Terry at half time was purely tactical and that the captain didn’t have an injury.
Mourinho said he needed to add more pace to his back 4 due to the counter attacking threat Manchester City imposed in Sergio Aguero, Raheem Sterling and Jesus Navas.
Zouma is the fastest defender we have in the squad. I know Man City are going to play counter attack and Zouma is a different player to John and I was proven right because Zouma was in complete control.
Mourinho was also quick to dismiss absurd claims that this was the beginning of the end of Terry’s career at Chelsea and he stated how Chelsea’s captain has the full backing from him.
John is a player I have total trust for, with me he was never substituted, with other managers he was not selected and people thought his Chelsea career was over. If a manager has the right, I do, because I gave the chance to make him what he is, a fantastic player and a fantastic captain.
