Jose Mourinho talks about Chelsea's self-belief but refuses to discuss John Terry or Frank Lampard
Jose Mourinho feels that Chelsea are in the middle of a “a perfect season” and it won’t hinder his team’s self-belief even if they lose their first game of this season. The Premier League leaders are on an unbeaten 20-match streak in the season, having just failed to score for the first time last weekend against Sunderland.
Chelsea are scheduled to play Tottenham on Wednesday night trying to try and keep their lead on top of the Barclays Premier League.
Team shold keep the self-belief and perform
It is reported by The Guardian that Mourinho talked about how his side should keep on going even if a first defeat does eventually happen.
“What do you want the team to do or to feel when a team is doing a perfect season?” Mourinho stated on his team’s performances in this year’s campaign.
“Top of the league in the Premier League. Top of the group in the Champions League. Quarter-finals of the Capital One Cup. Not losing one match for four months.
“The team has to feel very very well. And, when the defeat arrives, I think we have to feel exactly in the same way.
“We are doing things very, very well and it’s not a bad result, when the bad result arrives, that is going to change our self-belief, our self-esteem”, he added.
Tottenham Hotspurs will have to win against Chelsea at Stramford Bridge for the first time since February 1990, wherein Gary Lineker netted the winning goal, to stop their unbeaten streak.
“So tomorrow he can’t,” The Portugal born commented on the current record and was least interested in assesing Tottenham this season.
“I don’t think it’s important. I don’t even speak with the players about it, was not important.
“I don’t have to comment on (Spurs), just a difficult team that we have to play against. That’s the only thing that we have to think, that it’s a difficult match and to be ready for it. Nothing else.”
Loic Remy or Didier Drogba are expected to start the match in the front in place of their regular striker Diego Costa, who has been handed a one-match ban after getting a fifth yellow of the seaon in their goalless match against Sunderland.
“We don’t speak about Diego,” Mourinho stated.
“Forget Diego, we trust the other two and we go with the other two.”
Not right time to speak on Terry and Lampard
The former Real Madrid coach also didn’t entertain commenting on the future of their club captain John Terry, whose contract runs out at the end of the season.
“It’s not time to speak about it,” Mourinho said.
“But he knows what I think, he knows what I feel, the board also knows. And we don’t feel the need to share with you.”
The 56-year-old also stayed put on talking on Chelsea legend Frank Lampard, who is currently enjoying a good form at rival club Manchester City.
“I don’t speak about former players that play in clubs with the same objectives as we have,” he further said.
“When I speak about former players I speak about players who have finished their careers, like William Gallas, not Frank.
“Frank, at this moment, plays against us. I don’t want to speak about it.”
Both the London teams Chelsea and Tottenham will play each other again on New Year’s Day at White Hart Lane.
Next year will be easier for Van Gaal
But he did speak on his mentor Van Gaal’s first season in England and facing the hectic fixtures in the festive season.
“It’s the first time for him,” Mourinho said.
“Next season will be easier for him and my way of (making it) easy is just to think what we are giving back something to the people.”
“If you think that not just in England, but, through television, what we are giving to football fans all around the world, it’s what they want, and they don’t have (in their own countries).”
“We can feel that it is very, very difficult for all of us, but at the same time we are special because we are giving to the people something they love.”