In yesterdays match Chelsea took all three points at home against Norwich City in a 1-0 win; Thanks to a goal from Diego Costa.
The manager said that we were worthy winners agains Norwich City but felt the margin of the victory should have been more significant.
Kurt Zouma also hit the woodwork three minutes after Diego Costa scored the winning goal. There were chances either side of Half-Time and the Norwich City goalkeeper John Ruddy made some impressive saves, especially from Nemanja Matic late on in the match.
Josè Mourinho praised Diego Costa’s goal.
I know for sure so many pundits we have were strikers and they know the feeling when you don’t score, you get heavier. For every game you don’t score you have five kilos more and the pressure is there.
In the first half he missed two chances, the second one was a big one, so it was important for him. He’s working well, he’s a happy guy and tries everything. He’s positive. If I had to choose somebody to score the winning goal I would go with him.
Everything is connected; when you are full of confidence you are fluent in your decisions, you choose well your movements and the number of touches, when to hold, when to keep possession. When you lose confidence you lose that.
Yeshe can do much better but one goal is very important.
He also explained his reasoning behind for playing Kenedy at LB in his first Premier League start.
He’s an attacking player, he was playing in a position where he wasn’t really a left-back. We were ready for them to come and play with four at the back, which they did, but we were also ready for them to play with five at the back which they did against Man City, so I wanted to have a player in that position who could adapt to both situations.
If they played with five at the back I would have played with three at the back and used Kenedy as a left winger. When they came with four we knew what we had to do.
Mourinho also praised Eden Hazards impressive performance.
I think everybody played well; between Eden, Pedro and Willian they had a good dynamic. Eden created chances for us which was important, and also for his confidence. Again, he’s a player who hasn’t been performing especially well and every top player who isn’t playing well feels it more than the others.
The manager also described the importance of taking each game as it comes.
We have to go game after game. The fourth position is not an impossible mission. To recover points to teams who are normally in the middle of the table and to catch one of the teams who will have a bit of a collapse for sure, because everybody will have one, is a possible target.
As he talked about his assessment of the match Josè Mourinho decided to dedicate the victory to a member of Chelsea’s staff‘.
Obviously we are very sorry with everything that happened during the week, and the stadium and all the professionals gave a fantastic reaction of solidarity with all the victims.
I would like personally to dedicate this victory to somebody who is so close to us. Gary Staker (player administrator) lost his dad yesterday and couldn’t be with us today. My thoughts are with a big friend from all of us.
We didn’t deserve the heartbeat of the last four minutes. We deserved to be enjoying the last four minutes with a 2-0, 3-0 or 4-0 result, but we couldn’t. Once more the relation between how we played and the number of goals we scored wasn’t good. We should have scored three, four or five but we didn’t. We could cope with the pressure in the last five minutes because it was there, I felt it and the players felt it. We coped well with that and we got a result that we obviously needed very much.
It’s a bit of a relief. I’m not nervous on the bench but you get a bit disappointed with the way things go. After the goal Zouma hit the bar, if he didn’t touch the ball it’s a goal. Then in the last four minutes you are there and you think that maybe we’d score in our own goal. So, yes, there is a bit of relief but fundamentally I’m happy for the players because they are working well and they deserved it.
Jose, Source: Chelsea FC
