A second successive win in a campaign littered with unexpected setbacks would normally leave a team buoyed and enthused,but this is Chelsea. José Mourinho’s side departed Haifa top of Group G on goal dissimilarity with a rare thrashing to celebrate and comforted by the knowledge a win from their final fixture against Porto will be enough to claim the group. Yet it was still a troubling flipside that occupied their minds.
Anchoring the mood was the fact John Terry sustained ankle damage on a shoddy pitch. The injury to the captain will require scans before Sunday’s awkward trip to Tottenham Hotspur. The manager, who had watched the 34-year-old depart forlorn on a stretcher, and admitted he did “not believe too much” the centre-half would be available and had already lost Ramires to a muscle injury when slipping in training the preceding evening. He denounced the pitch as uncertain,though whether he was helpless on that front he was disgusted on another.
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Source: theguardian.com