Sunday, 22 November 2015

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho rules out Premier League title tilt


Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has ruled his team out of the title race but believes they can still secure a top-four finish.
The champions ended a three-game losing run in the Premier League with a 1-0 win over Norwich City at Stamford Bridge on the weekend.
Mourinho's men are now 15th on the table with 14 points from 13 games - 14 points shy of leaders Leicester City, and 12 behind fourth-placed Arsenal.
"It's a bit of a relief," said Mourinho.
"The pressure was there - I was feeling, the players were feeling too. We coped well with that and we got a result which obviously we needed very, very much.
"Fourth position for me is not an impossible mission. If you ask me the title I would say impossible mission.
"Maybe Tom Cruise can do it (but) it's complicated because you have to recover points from four candidates.
"But to grab one of the (teams) that go up and will also have a little bit of a collapse... the fourth position is a difficult position but a possible target."
Meanwhile, Mourinho was pleased to see playmaker Eden Hazard pick up a man-of-the-match award against the Canaries.
"Every top player that is not performing well they feel it probably more than the others that are not so good," he added.
"Eden created chances for us, which is important and I think also for his confidence."

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