Louis Van Gaal Comments on Jose Mourinho After Chelsea vs

A tweet from Sky Italian reporter Alessandro Alciato sparked a Twitter meltdown earlier this week, after he claimed Mourinho was ready to agree a deal to take over from Louis van Gaal at Old Trafford last season.

Azpilicueta added: “It’s a situation between him and the club”.

“We have the feeling, and that’s because we are winning twice in a row and with sparkling football”. Goals against West Brom, Newcastle, Stoke City and now Chelsea show a young man growing in confidence and importance to the side. In the sixth and final minute of added time Costa broke through again, only to be denied by De Gea. “In the last quarter we gave it away”. They were almost back on level terms as Branislav Ivanovic’s volley was superbly kept out by De Gea. When Costa rose to nod over as the fourth official’s board was raised, it felt as if the hosts’ opportunities had been and gone. It was a passage of play that demonstrated the potential in Van Gaal’s side.

Van Gaal left the pitch in discussion with the match officials, but upon reflection he will surely be angrier with the manner in which his team allowed Fabregas to thread the ball through a crowded, central area of the pitch, into Costa’s path in the penalty box.

The result extended the Blues’ current unbeaten run to 11 games. They are also now on 30 points, 10 away from the traditional marker to avoid relegation.

Terry’s central defensive partner in recent weeks has been Kurt Zouma, who suffered what appeared to be a serious knee injury against United.

Playing both Nemanja Matic and Jon Obi Mikel naturally slows things down, and it was Matic himself who sparked Chelsea’s best moments of the first half, charging forward, and heading a Willian corner just wide.

In defence, Matteo Darmian, Cameron Borthwich-Jackson, Daley Blind and Chris Smalling should make up the back four in front of David de Gea.

A Michael Carrick shot extended Thibaut Courtois before Anthony Martial cut in from the left, shot viciously across goal, only for the goalkeeper to save smartly. Rooney touched the ball to Lingard, who had his back to goal.

Chelsea have found themselves in arrears too often on home territory, and a fifth defeat here loomed large.

Zouma was forced off after landing awkwardly and then Lingard scored. He was taken off on a stretcher, distraught and clearly in agony.

“I always say that I need competition and I need competition every week and in Spain, I was at an fantastic club but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona and after that we’d win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1”, he said.

Tomorrow we’ll know more, but if you have this injury it’s bad.