Terry and Pedro start for Chelsea

Chelsea has three loses, one draw and one win in their last five battles.

Manchester City are on a heck of a roll early in the season, with two 3-0 wins in their first two matches.

“Last year we lost seven points in three weeks but reached zero [level], again. But in England you can do it”.

‘Did you sign already for another club?’ I am not happy at all with anyone. So I don’t answer because I don’t think it’s important.

Why all the bets on that happening, then?

He said: “You don’t have big chances of making money on that”. Maybe I need to be more active on the touchline, so I need to be fitter.

Even so, Chelsea’s Special One is under no illusions about the size of the task he faces today against a manager he rates nearly as highly as himself.

Pedro, 28, snubbed Louis van Gaal to join Chelsea after a phone-call from Jose Mourinho, so this will not be pleasant viewing for Manchester United supporters. “So when we know he’s that kind of professional, that gives everything but clearly wants to leave, it was an opportunity and as a club we decided to try to get him“. Barcelona winger Pedro and Augsburg defender Abdul Baba Rahman have been inducted into the team and are likely to play a part this weekend.

Mourinho, who recently signed a four-year contract, laughed off suggestions he was near the top of bookmakers’ lists to be sacked first this season.

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho is understandably displeased by his team’s sluggish start to the season, but is refusing to panic just yet.

West Bromwich Albion welcome reigning champions Chelsea to The Hawthorns this afternoon, as José Mourinho’s men continue to look for their first win this season.

But the 34-year-old former England captain was hauled off at half-time in the 3-0 humbling at the Etihad Stadium last weekend.

Manchester City are rolling, but Everton are capable of knocking them off their pedestal.

Both teams have, surprisingly, got off to equally poor starts to their respective 2015/16 Premier League campaigns.

Tony Pulis: “It is a joke what you just said”.