Chelsea 14/15

"If we lose a game it is not because of complacency. It is because football is football."

"The Champions League game against Maribor, where we dropped two points, that was not complacency, that was football. We missed so many chances, the better team was ready and performed tremendously well in the second half."

"Football is one of the sports where it is very possible that the team that is not the favourite gets the result. Every week it happens in many, many countries."

“Since I’ve known Sergio Ramos he has been a fantastic football player, but he is not a doctor. He is not a doctor and I am the same. I do my job the best I can but I am not a doctor.”

“My doctor and the doctor of the Spanish national team, they had the scans and they decided that the player was not in the condition to play.”

“I am nobody to go against it and I don’t think Sergio did a medicine Masters in the last couple of years to understand about it.”

“My doctor and the doctor of the Spanish national team, they had the scans and they decided that the player was not in the condition to play.”

“I am nobody to go against it and I don’t think Sergio did a medicine Masters in the last couple of years to understand about it.”

Kick wrote:
Our results by month.

November is second worst, at under 50% of games won.

30 - Goals so far in the Premier League (rank No 1)

78 - Pass completion percentage in the final third (rank No 1)

83 - Tackles won percentage in the league (rank No 1)

11 - Goals conceded in the league (rank No 2)

53 - Percentage of Premier League shots on target (rank No 1)

22 - Percentage of goals to shots in the league (rank No 1)

11 - Second highest goalscorer in the Premier League (Diego Costa)

10 - Highest provider of assists (Cesc Fàbregas)

14 - Goals so far in Champions League group stages (rank No 2)

4 - Fabregas assists so far in the Champions League (rank No 1)

3 - Goals conceded in the Champions League (rank No 3)

0 - Red cards in Europe (rank No 1)

106 - Total crosses in the Champions League (rank No 3)

63 - Percentage of shots on target in the group stages (rank No 1)

“This kind of trophy is not good for football. This is why I don't care about it. Sometimes it looks like we are looking for stars, we are looking for some people to be more important than others. And this is not the culture we want in this club. I don't care about it.”

“The mentality here is not to be worried about that. Even less being obsessed with that. When I see these two names, Fabregas and Hazard, I think clearly they don't think about it. They think about the team, about playing well and trying to win matches.”

"I'm sure there is much more to come. It's a young team, with lots of young players."

"There is a lot ahead of us but this team has all the conditions to be better."

"We were winning 5-0 against Schalke and in the 88th minute, (Eden) Hazard made a sprint to defend."

"They have changed. There is a clear evolution with these people. As a group they can't be complacent."

"One thing is that I don't think it's possible (to go unbeaten)."

"The other thing is we are not playing for that. We don't focus on that. We don't. Because, if you play for that, if that is one objective, maybe you draw so many matches, you don't take risks to try and win matches."

"You are happy just to be undefeated. If you get 10 draws, you get 10 points. If you win five and lose five, you make 15 points. I'd prefer 15 points and lose matches than 10 points and be undefeated."

"If tomorrow we have a 0-0 with 20 minutes to go, we are not going to play for the 0-0 to be undefeated after 21 matches. No way. We are going to play matches to win. Sometimes, we will lose."

"We have to play, we have to win matches and must get points."

"That's what we're doing. We don't promise anything. We don't put ourselves in that position, of being arrogant to say we are going to win. We don't do that."

"All we say is we're playing very well, we are getting results, we believe in ourselves, we are very happy with what we're doing."

"The measure of success in football is made by the trophies you win. We have to try to transform the quality of our work and performances into cups."

"Normally, the best team and best squad wins a league championship. But you cannot choose to try to win this competition or that one."

"We try to improve the team, try and have the best possible team playing the best possible football, adapted to different situations, and after that let's see what is possible to win."

"When they need a rest, they are able to answer."

"December is a difficult month and it's almost impossible for players to play every game this month - certainly later in the month I have to change some players."

"Of course, Diego Costa is already rested and now Nemanja Matic is suspended for one game so he will be rested."

CHELSEA BY NUMBERS

Our last defeat was 24 games ago when we lost to Atletico Madrid at Stamford Bridge in April.

Chelsea remain the only unbeaten team in all four divisions this season.

The Blues are six points up on the corresponding league fixtures from last season.

We have gained nine points from losing positions this season.

Seven players have started every Premier League game for Chelsea this season.

Our last away defeat in the Barclays Premier League was at Selhurst Park in March. Since then we have won seven games - at Swansea, Liverpool twice, Cardiff, Burnley, Everton and Crystal Palace, and drawn at Manchester City, Manchester United and Sunderland.