Chelsea vs Arsenal London Derby Preview – Hazard looks to break Duck

But Mourinho said: “I think it’s time to not speak about it”.

The Premier League is also known as the world’s greatest league and there are definitely many reasons for that.

A sluggish start to their title defence sees Chelsea go into Saturday’s meeting 17th in the Premier League – with Wenger set to recall Aaron Ramsey and Hector Bellerin after they were rested for the trip to Croatia.

“And Eden is the best player in this country so it’s not because that performance or penalty or not scoring goals for three or four weeks that he is not the best”. “The manager tried to create the best balance for the game but we didn’t make the most of it”.

As if it were needed, adding further spice to Saturday’s game is the fact that the two managers clearly don’t get along.

Goals from Willian and a penalty kick from Oscar had given Chelsea a commanding lead at the interval against Maccabi Tel Aviv in this Champions League opening group match.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said his players have overcome a “mental block” at Wembley.

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. But in the same way I’m not in hell with bad results, I’m not now in heaven because we won a game. It was Chelsea’s first win at home this season after picking up just one victory in six matches in all competitions.

“It’s sad”, the Chelsea boss said. “You lose confidence. You don’t want the ball”.

Terry has been written off after his and Chelsea’s disastrous start to the season and will be intent on showing those outside of the club that he still has what it takes.

Beating Chelsea would also boost Arsenal’s morale ahead of the Carling Cup clash with their bitter north London rivals Tottenham on 23 September. “When the game ends, if he wants to come to our dressing room, the door is open for him“.

However, Wenger finally sealed his first win in 14 attempts over Mourinho in last month’s Community Shield. They will be sorely missed against a Gunners side who have kept three successive clean sheets in the league.