John Obi Mikel believes Jose Mourinho has finally hammered home to his players that second best is not good enough. "If you don't play for Chelsea, you don't know what these trophies mean to this club," Mikel said.
"It's not a team where if you come second, third or fourth, it doesn't matter. No.
"Every year you have to win something and this is the pressure.
"It's a matter of letting them know what it means when you come to the end of the season, what the Premier League and Champions League means to this club.
"Now they're here, they have to feel the pressure and they are feeling it right now. "That's why we just want to keep doing well and now they're starting to understand that we don't want to get beaten.
"We just want to keep going and hopefully come the end of the season they will start to show the winning mentality even more that the manager is trying to install into them and we go on from there and win trophies."
Mikel cited the work ethic of Eden Hazard, Oscar and Willian of examples of players prepared to do as they are told.
"He always wants us to play in a certain way and give 110 per cent," Mikel added. "If you don't, you're out.
"As a player that's what you want. You don't want to slack.
"That's the mentality he wants installed in this team and slowly but surely the likes of Eden Hazard, Oscar and Willian are beginning to do that.
"You can see by the way we press up the pitch. That is important for the team and we're doing well."
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