Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas says they're back in the title race after victory at Newcastle United.

Chelsea now face a crunch Champions League clash with Valencia on Tuesday ahead of Manchester City's visit to Stamford Bridge next Monday evening, and Villas-Boas is relishing the tasks ahead.

He said: "Regarding the Premier League and bearing in mind the fact that last weekend was a good win for us against Wolves and not a long time ago, we won against Blackburn away, we are making good progress.

"We recovered two points last week, we have recovered one position in the league against Newcastle, and we will have to wait on this weekend's results.

"We hope that Premier League fortunes are inverting for us. It's a good three points at a very, very difficult ground.

"We have a major, major game on Tuesday against Valencia. We hope to go through it and if we do, we set up the right emotional stimulus to take on the league leaders and hopefully further shorten the distance to them."