Controlled Costa is fit for Boro clash

The Belgium worldwide, 25, had never won the monthly Premier League prize before.

The Spanish and Brazilian playmakers have been peripheral figures at Chelsea this season, with Conte masterminding a steep upturn in form by reverting to a 3-4-3 formation within which both men do not appear to have an obvious role. I am happy to have this availability of the central defenders.

‘Eden has the potential to do great things in his career, ‘ said Conte. The Spain worldwide has scored 9 goals in 11 league games so far and is now the best striker in the country.

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“Diego is a very good player”, he said. But it’s important to find very quickly the right way to continue the way we left before the global break.

“It was a pity to stop our run for the internationals but this is normal and now we must find a way to restart in the right way”, Conte said in his press conference on Friday. “If all the players are able to think in this way, it’s fantastic and we’ll be a good team, a very tough team to play”.

The Italian boss also provided a fitness update ahead of this clash. “As a player you can dream about titles and trophies but, especially me, I cannot think about five or 10 or 15 years”. Various Chelsea fans wrote that: “They’ve had high hopes for Oscar at Chelsea, never once thought he wasn’t good enough to be in this squad”. You can see Eden is always involved in the game, not calm and off during the game. He trained on Wednesday and his physical condition is good.

“Eden has also recovered well”.

The Conte era at Stamford Bridge couldn’t have got off to a brighter start, with the Blues coming on leaps and bounds since their 3-0 defeat to Arsenal in mid-September.

Costa joined up with the Spain squad over the worldwide break hoping to play a part in the games against Macedonia and England.

“They don’t have midweek games and that is really important”.

Marten De Roon netted the stoppage-time equaliser to cancel out Sergio Aguero’s 43rd-minute opener. Boro started their upsurge following their trip to the Emirates where they stifled the Gunners’ attacking play and came back with a point, keeping a clean sheet in the process. “Friend had a knock on his knee yesterday so we will need to check”.