Tomorrow evening, in Kiev, Chelsea resume their Champions League campaign with a difficult group fixture against the Ukrainian side, Dynamo Kiev.
With two group games already played, Chelsea have a record that reads W1 and L1, thereby accumulating three points out of the six available.
A win against Kiev will go a long way to ensuring whether our misfiring side reaches the knockout stages or will be pushed all the way by the other three teams in our group.
Although Chelsea got a much-needed victory against Aston Villa, on Saturday, the performance was far from convincing with Mourinho intent on grinding out a victory to ease the growing pressure on the club.
Ahead of the tough trip that faces Chelsea, Jose has already, as seems to be the norm when it comes to European fixtures, bemoaned the fact that the opposition have had more res time than Chelsea, with Jose quoted in the morning press as having remarked.
“We are losing 24 hours to Dynamo like we did against Porto last time.
“Porto played Friday, Dynamo played Friday. We played in Newcastle on Saturday prior to Porto and again on Saturday.
“We are losing 24 hours. We have to try and recover that with other ingredients.
“And the ingredients will be the same – fantastic spirit.”
The squad may have shown spirit against Villa on Saturday but it was also noticeable that several big-name players sat the game out, the likes of Cahill, Hazard and Oscar, will they be recalled for this fixture?
As far as we can make out, only Ivanovic and Courtois are ruled out by injury, leaving Jose with almost a full squad to choose from.
As usual we`re running our feature whereby we ask you to second guess the starting eleven that Jose will opt for.
Will there be a return for Hazard?
Will Oscar feature?
Will Cahill slip into the back four alongside John Terry?
All questions only Jose can answer, but, in the meantime, why not have a guess and see how close you can get to the eleven that Jose will select to start in this intriguing fixture.
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