Southampton boss Ronald Koeman taunts Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho with

Koeman believes Chelsea’s tactical approach of retreating after taking the lead rather than going for the opposition’s jugular doesn’t work in their favour, and hit out at Mourinho for relentlessly moaning about officiating. Overall, he served for 11 years at Stamford Bridge and remains a popular figure there despite his move to a close rival.

While manager Arsene Wenger has backed his second-choice keeper to return to form, there are suggestions that Petr Cech will start against Bayern Munich in the Gunners’ next European game.

But Mourinho has overseen the club’s worst start to a season in 37 years and himself conceded a successful title defence is probably beyond his squad just eight games into the new season.

“By defending, Chelsea give their opponent a chance to come back in the game”.

So, the question arises naturally if Chelsea would be capable of winning anything this campaign in light of their current woeful form.

Southampton are now eighth in the EPL standings on 12 points, four ahead of 16th-placed Chelsea who have just two wins from their opening eight matches.

He had a great day in goal in Arsenal’s last league fixture against Manchester United in their last league fixture at the Emirates Stadium as the hosts ran away 3-0 winners.

“Anyway, the season is long and Chelsea are still favourites in my eyes”, the Czech global told iDNES.

” I think that’s the only thing, because in terms of the quality of the team and the motivation of everyone, you can see that we can compete with everybody”.

He also refused to criticise Wenger’s decision to play David Ospina over him. “In such a big team and in such a long season it is not possible for a man to play all the time, though I obviously wanted to”, Cech concluded.