Things look better than first feared.
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Jose Mourinho had some good news for Chelsea fans as he revealed Diego Costa’s hamstring injury is not as bad as first feared, but he remains a doubt for the Premier League clash with Everton on Saturday.
Costa picked up a hamstring injury during training on Wednesday and the initial prognosis was that the £32m signing faced six weeks on the sidelines, but Mourinho has quashed those rumours.
Jose on Diego Costa: ‘We are trying everything for him to play tomorrow. He didn’t train for the last two days. Today is the last day.’ #CFC
— Chelsea FC (@chelseafc) August 29, 2014
Jose: ‘If the reaction is positive he could be on the bench, if not, we don’t select him. At the moment, I don’t know.’ #CFC
— Chelsea FC (@chelseafc) August 29, 2014
Jose on Costa: ‘He is a big doubt, let’s see.’ Everyone else is fit. #CFC
— Chelsea FC (@chelseafc) August 29, 2014
Costa has started life at Stamford Bridge well, scoring on his debut against Burnley in a 3-1 win and netting again for the Blues against Leicester City on Saturday.
There were some doubts that the 25-year-old would succeed in English football when he first made the switch from Atletico Madrid earlier in the summer, but the forward has proven the majority of those critics wrong already.
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