Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho
believes the form of back-up strikers Didier Drogba and Loic Remy is proving to
be crucial to his side's assault on the Premier League title.
Drogba and Remy both scored in the
absence of suspended first choice striker Diego Costa in the 3-0 win against Tottenham at Stamford Bridge,
with the Blues boss fulsome in his praise of his second and third choice
marksmen.
"I didn't want to talk about
Diego not playing in this game because I know what I have," he told
reporters.
"We have Diego, Drogba and Remy scoring goals. All of them are
scoring goals.
"Didier and Remy don't play so
many minutes, but when they play there are there and it is important for us. We
don't cry because somebody is suspended. We just try to be positive and give
confidence to the players who are going to play."
The Chelsea boss went on to insist
he is not surprised by the form of Drogba, who is exceeding the expectations
many had of him when he returned to the club for a second spell last summer at
the age of 36.
"I was expecting exactly this
from Didier," he continued. "The important thing is that he's here
and he's going to finish his career with Chelsea. It looks, for me, that he's
going to stay [at Chelsea] doing other things when he finishes his career.
Didier Drogba scored to lift Chelsea
to a comprehensive victory over Tottenham on Wednesday.
"First of all he's a team
player. After that he's one of these old days mentality. Not selfish, not vain.
A humble guy, who plays for the team, fights for the team.
"It will be his decision when
he decides when to stop as a player. It will be something personal."
Mourinho went on to suggest Mauricio
Pochettino's Tottenham were unfortunate to lose so convincingly, as they
continued their record of not winning at Stamford Bridge since February 1990.
"The 3-0 [score line] is not
right for Tottenham, they play better than that," stated Mourinho.
"For my team, I am so happy. The points, the goal difference, the
performance, the way the players could identify the difficult moments of the
game. It was fantastic.
"We had difficult moments that
we not our fault. Tottenham created chances and they started very well at the
start of the first and second half. They are a very good team and the
principles of their team very well established and it is not easy to play
against them.
"Pochettino is a very positive
coach. He doesn't play for anything other than to win and to try and play good
football. [Harry] Kane hit the post at the start of the match and they had
another difficult situation for us and if they score, it would have been
difficult for us. After that, our team was strong and defended very well."
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