Jose
Mourinho is convinced goals are on the way for misfiring Chelsea forwards
Diego Costa and Eden Hazard.
Costa hit 20 goals in his first season in the Premier League but has just
three domestically this term, while Hazard is yet to score in any
competition.
But Mourinho was encouraged by the pair's performances against Porto in
midweek and is predicting a change of fortune ahead of the
Monday Night
Football trip to Leicester.
"We need results. We need to score more goals," he said. "I know maybe you
come back immediately with Diego and Hazard, they are not scoring goals, but
the way they played against Porto they have to score goals.
"Sooner or later goals are coming. Their performance against Porto was very
good. So in this moment I am less worried than I was."
Last week's home defeat to Bournemouth was an eighth in 15 league games for
the defending champions, but Mourinho believes he has solved the defensive
problems which saw his side ship three goals to Everton, Southampton and
Liverpool earlier in the season.
"We need what we're having now regularly, which is lots of clean sheets,
very few goals conceded," he said.
"At the beginning of the season three (goals conceded), three, three, three,
two. In this moment, zero (goals conceded), zero, one, zero, one. We are in
this defensive stability now."
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