Chelsea’s game against Bournemouth falls on Boxing Day, but Antonio Conte has told our official site that having Christmas day as a team won’t affect preparations.
‘On Christmas Day the players will stay together like the normal situation before a game,” Conte told chelseafc.com.
“‘We’ll have a dinner in the hotel at nine o’clock, then we sleep, and the next day we will play the game.”
It’s hard to imagine that the club won’t have something a little special planned for the players on the 25th – even if it’s just a Turkey flavoured Lucozade or a few Christmas crackers with Arsene Wenger jokes in – but it’s encouraging to hear that the players will be keeping the total focus that has got them through 11 wins in a row, and will hopefully extend that run far into 2017.
Christmas cheer is great, but three more points is even better – and you can be sure that’s what Antonio is telling the players right now.
