Jose Mourinho: Tottenham have it easy

But I think they have got enough about them to go to White Hart Lane and pick up a point.

John Terry (ankle) and Ramires (muscular) are injury doubts for the visitors.

Cesc Fabregas, though, is fit despite revealing a toe injury after the Maccabi win.

After the opening day defeat to Manchester United, Tottenham are yet to lose any Premier League match and so it will take an impressive performance over 90 mins for Chelsea to be able to outscore the youthful and in-form Mauricio Pochettino side.

“I don’t want to say that it’s impossible he plays because maybe he plays and then you will say that I was hiding”, said Mourinho.

“But I know the players and the managers have the ability to change this”.

Chelsea could dent those hopes on Sunday, but Tottenham are undoubtedly favourites for the derby clash given their vastly superior form and their home advantage.

“We are not speaking about players, about buying, spending, we are thinking about that we can do now”.

“We played Wednesday and we played Tuesday”. The pitch wasn’t good and we had trouble building our play.

Costa is under pressure to deliver after scoring just four times this season, the most recent in the win over Norwich.

Mourinho is now experiencing his worst start to a campaign, but has received a vote of confidence from the club’s leadership and seems to be slowly turning Chelsea’s fortunes around.

A late Harry Kane header sank Group J minnows Qarabag and sealed Tottenham’s passage through with a game to spare.

Unfortunately, taking on Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane is no easy prospect.

“You never know in football”.

“For example, in Italy, in Germany, in Portugal, there is a solution for everyone”.

Tottenham are likely to settle for any result that extends their unbeaten streak, coming off a long trip to Azerbaijan in the Europa League last night. There are rules for everyone. I think this is perhaps the best and safest bet for this match so I would be putting some money on for sure.

“These are [media] stores that start on 1 September when the market closes, and stories that will be more and more when 1 January is getting closer”, Mourinho said.

“When I watch them play it’s no surprise”.