Wednesday, 22nd October, 2014
Jose Mourinho has refused to hide behind the excuse of injuries ahead of Chelsea’s visit to Old Trafford on Sunday.
Chelsea will be without Loic Remy, who suffered a groin problem against NK Maribor last night, and Mourinho has also stated that Diego Costa will also be unavailable due to his ongoing hamstring problems.
36-year-old Didier Drogba will most probably lead the line against Louis van Gaal’s team on Sunday and the Chelsea manager has refused to hide behind the excuse of injuries.
"I don't know the dimension and I'm not worried. When a player is injured, play another one”, the Chelsea manager told ITV.
"Tomorrow is a day off and the doctor is forbidden to call me to speak about injuries. I don't want to speak about injuries, Man United. I don't want to know.”
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He added that there is no point in moaning about the players who won’t be available and backed his other players to step up to the plate against Manchester United.
"We don't cry on injuries. It's our philosophy, we don't cry. We just think one injury means an opportunity for somebody else.
"We cannot hide. In this moment we have some problems with players that are not available to play.
"We will prepare the game Thursday, Friday, Saturday to try to be at our best possible level against an opponent which we respect very, very much."
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