Chelsea are unbeaten against Arsenal in seven Premier League games going into

Jose Mourinho has warned Arsene Wenger that Chelsea are back in the groove as the Premier League champions look to extend their revival in Saturday’s showdown with London rivals Arsenal.

The Portuguese added that Brazilian midfielder Willian, who scored the opening goal against Maccabi, will miss the game, although Oscar, Pedro and Radamel Falcao have not been ruled out despite knocks.

In this regard, Fabregas said, “We didn’t start the season well and when you see Chelsea so far down the table you have to check twice to make sure this is happening”.

Even if Maccabi were not the toughest of opponents, Chelsea now have their first home win, first clean sheet and face Arsenal as the only English winners in the Champions League group stage.

Wenger has still never beaten Mourinho in 10 previous Premier League matches and his team have not overcome Chelsea in the league since October 2011, when Andre Villas Boas was in charge at Stamford Bridge.

The rival coaches squared up in the dugout during the Blues’ 2-0 win last season, and the pair did not shake hands after the Gunners’ 2015 Community Shield triumph at Wembley. “You can see how Chelsea have started the season, no one has given them any respite on the ball at all, and I think we need to be exactly the same like that”. As I was saying the other day it’s not because Rooney doesn’t score goals for three weeks that he is not a fantastic player. I think you should speak about Gabriel and about his mistake.

“I want to go match after match“, he said. “We know we have to give a little bit more; we are the champions of England and conquered the title previous year with the same players we have now”. He’s the best. He’ll be the best again. It’s a match we want to win. “Wednesday is one more hard match”.

“After the game, the dressing room door is open”.

“I could not imagine waking up tomorrow after a defeat to go to Cobham to train just two days before a derby against Arsenal”. I’m not going to say it’s going to have an absolutely massive impact on that because it probably won’t but in terms of the feel-good factor around us, it certainly will.