Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard targets Premier League title

Chelsea boss Antonio Conte was delighted with his goalscorers after their 2-1 win at Watford.

Substitute Batshuayi equalized in the 80th minute with his first goal for the club before Costa, who scored a late victor against West Ham United on Monday, finished calmly three minutes from time after being found by another sub, Cesc Fabregas. But it was the same against West Ham.

“I feel good because I saw the right commitment, the right spirit from my team”, Conte told the BBC. At the end, I think we deserved to win.

Conte agreed that his intense fitness regime, which has included double sessions in pre-season, has paid off in Chelsea s ability to perform strongly late in games. Work always pays off.

Batshuayi pounced seven minutes after being introduced at Vicarage Road as Heurelho Gomes failed to hold an Eden Hazard shot, before Costa tucked home the victor.

“We arrive after a season which was not so good but we are working very hard to improve the situation but, if you ask me, the real target of this squad now is very difficult”. It’s important because sometimes when the play is open on one side it’s important to shout. “And that is happening in Chelsea”.

One consolation is that if and when Costa suffers an nearly inevitable ban – there were two prolonged ones last season – Chelsea have in Batshuayi a £33m striker who could prove worth something close to the “crazy” prices Conte has complained about. “He s an important player for us and he had to stay concentrating in the game”.

With time running out before the transfer deadline passes, the last thing that Conte will want to do is panic buy and spend over the odds for a player that isn’t worth the price-tag.

“If you look now at our squad, we have only five defenders – four that started today and an academy player Ola Aina”.

“We can hold our heads high”, Mazzarri said.

“But in Italy we d say that we complicated our own lives”. Both goals were our errors.

“I don’t want him to focus on other players, other managers or the press or people that talk badly about him”.