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Spain international Diego Costa has insisted that his Chelsea teammates want him to stay put Stamford Bridge despite Antonio Conte’s desire to offload his services in the summer transfer window.

The Brazilian-born striker revealed last week that he could be packing his bags away from Stamford Bridge after he received a text message from Conte stating that he is not on the Italian’s plans for the 2017/18 season. As a result, the 28-year-old is looking at short-term options with Atletico Madrid unlikely to buy him outright due to their ongoing transfer ban.

Embattled Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger opines that Premier League leaders Chelsea had an advantage over the rest of the top teams due to lack of continental football action.

The French coach is worried about the messages that league winners send out ashe feels Chelsea and Leicester City did not take the initiative in games.

Antonio Conte has claimed that he will be only satisfied with the current campaign if he fails to win the Premier league in his first season at the club.

The Chelsea manager has been a revelation in the English top division after leading the club back to the top of the table. With four matches left in the season, Chelsea are four points ahead of Tottenham. The blues are favourites to win the title, but Spurs have been relentless in their pursuit – especially in the second half of the campaign. Chelsea have also made it to the finals of the FA Cup where they will be facing Arsenal.

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte says that the club will have to adopt a different approach in order to find the winning form once again.

Two defeat in the last four matches has taken the wind out of their title challenge. Only a few weeks ago, the club had a commanding 10 point advantage over Tottenham and Manchester City. Now, it has been reduced to just four points with Spurs bringing down their neck by winning seven consecutive league matches. The threat from Spurs is quite real, and Chelsea are prepared to undergo changes to the starting lineup in order to revive their form.

Antonio Conte has blamed Manchester United for targeting Eden Hazard with excessive physical force in the recent FA Cup game between the two teams.

United visit to Stamford Bridge hoping to get revenge for the 4-0 defeat suffered earlier in the season. Back then, Jose Mourinho used his familiar system against the 3-4-3 of Chelsea. It proved to be highly ineffective with his team kept apart over the course of 90 minutes. In the FA Cup game, however, the team improved drastically, although they could not prevent a 1-0 loss. United were reduced to 10 men after two yellow cards for midfielder Ander Herrera.