Chelsea and Arsenal move on in Champions League

Chelsea will need to be at the top of their game ahead of their next Premier League clash against table-toppers Leicester City on Monday.

Jose Mourinho reacts during Chelsea’s victory on Wednesday night in the Champions League at Stamford Bridge.

“In the Champions League it is very important to go through to the next stage with the best teams in Europe”, Mourinho added.

“But when we won at Porto in 2004, we were not candidates”. When we won it with Inter we were not candidates. When we were candidates, we lost two semi-finals with Real Madrid, we lost two semi-finals with Chelsea.

Costa’s lack of goals as well as disagreements with Mourinho has led to the striker being dropped recently and there were even reports that the Spanish worldwide could be sold by the Premier League champions in January.

“In the second half he faced the keeper on his own”.

With three straight wins and only one goal conceded in them, Porto will be confident that they can kick Chelsea while they’re down, and secure top position in Group B while they’re at it.

“No problem. I’ve done my job and he has done his, and he has done well”, Mourinho said.

But since then, Chelsea have improved only two places in the Premier League.

Costa has just four goals this season but Mourinho has backed the striker to regain his form and revealed that he is happy with him.

The two-time Champions League victor left the Chelsea dressing room early at half-time during his side’s 2-0 win against Porto. “They don’t want to play Barcelona, they don’t want to play Real Madrid, they don’t want to play Atletico, they don’t want to play Bayern”. This is football and I understand journalism has to meet the demands of what people want but obviously I don’t mind and I’m not interested in what a website says. We could have had different results against Stoke, Tottenham, Bournemouth. Chelsea have improved statistically over the last few weeks, but fail to put the ball in the goal, albeit with many chances to do so.