Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has hailed the attitude of Diego Costa. Mourinho joked about Diego Costa's apparent fitness concerns after his hat-trick in victory over Swansea City.
"The most important thing of a player's character is what affects his performance," Mourinho said. "He was a risk and a doubt before Everton, a risk and a doubt before the Spain game (against France), a risk and a doubt before this game and he played all three.
"He is a risk and a doubt again for next Wednesday because of an accumulation of matches but nobody can stop him."
Mourinho has tried to have a word but it falls on deaf ears.
"If the injury is a clear injury of course, yes, but when the doubt is there and he has not the best feelings but he feels he can, he goes (on). He knows exactly what the team needs and is ready to give," said the Chelsea manager.
"It is not about the modern player, it is about the modern society. The education they get, the people they have sometimes behind them, make them be a little bit more selfish in the sense of you first and the team second.
"When you get guys with this mentality they become special and they can be an influence to the people around them."
Like John Terry?
"Yeah, yeah."
