Chelsea 1-0 Norwich: Diego Costa nets leader as Jose Mourinho’s struggling side explain a much-needed win during Stamford Bridge

Chelsea pierce above Norwich in a Premier League after their slight win during Stamford Bridge
Diego Costa scored a leader after 64 mins following a discerning free-kick from Cesc Fabregas
Jose Mourinho returned to a cave following his track anathema during a final diversion opposite Stoke City
Norwich had opportunities of their possess yet unsuccessful to find their torpedo reason as they suffered defeat
Mourinho and Costa were intent in an charcterised review on a sideline before his strike

Rob Draper for The Mail on Sunday

Published:
16:53 GMT, 21 Nov 2015

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When a jubilee came from Diego Costa, it was roughly weary. Certainly it was some-more relieved that ecstatic.

Moments before he had eventually found a net, his manager Jose Mourinho had come off a dais to rivet in an charcterised review with his star striker.

‘Just side feet it!’ seemed to be gist, as he motioned that action. Or get into a box and get on a finish of it: something along those line, anyway.

Diego Costa (left) fires homes a leader as he helped Chelsea explain a much-needed 3 points during Stamford Bridge

The striker is congratulated by Willian and salutes a throng following his glorious particular goal

His team-mates rush to applaud with him as use went all around Stamford Bridge after he pennyless a deadlock

Jose Mourinho looks on as his side clinched a critical 3 points opposite a imperishable Norwich side

Whatever it was, Mourinho’s disappointment seemed to be growing. Even a Chelsea fans’ faith competence have been wavering. Loic Remy was warming adult and Costa’s time seemed limited.

Up until a 64th minute, it was simply one of those afternoons that wasn’t duty for a male who scored 20 goals for a bar final season.

Chelsea have had churned problems this season, yet Costa’s form, a disaster of Radamel Falcao and rejection to trust Remy has been arch among them.

To put it into context, Costa has now scored 7 goals in his final 28 appearances for Chelsea; he scored 7 in his initial 4 games for a club.

So when a discerning giveaway flog from Cesc Fabregas came for Costa from low and was tranquil by a Brazilian-born player, who cut inside Ryan Bennett, there was a impulse when we wondered, either even this transparent possibility competence be spurned.

And afterwards Costa non-stop adult his body, struck a round with a kind of certainty he carried final deteriorate and a round twisted around John Ruddy’s out-stretched hand.

The Spaniard, goes for a lax round inside a Canaries box yet a divided side privileged their lines

The striker looks to a arbitrate yet his appeals went unanswered as Chelsea continued to be undone in a opening 45

Kenedy, who was given a curtsy during left back, attempts to get divided from Dieumerci Mbokani during a initial half

Zurt Zouma (right) flattens Norwich's Robbie Brady as a dual sides cancelled any other out during a initial period

Zurt Zouma (right) flattens Norwich’s Robbie Brady as a dual sides cancelled any other out during a initial period

MATCH FACTS, PLAYER RATINGS, PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE AND MATCH ZONE FROM STAMFORD BRIDGE

CHELSEA (4-2-3-1): Begovic 6.5, Ivanovic 6, Zouma 7.5, Terry 7.5, Kenedy 6.5, Fabregas 7.5, Matic 6.5, Pedro 6.5 (Oscar – 83), Willian 7 (Ramires – 87), Hazard 8 (Azpilicueta – 93), Costa 7

Subs not used: Traore, Remy, Cahill, Blackman

Manager: Mourinho 7

Goals: Costa 64

Booked: Willian

NORWICH (4-2-3-1): Ruddy 7, Wisdom 5.5, Bennett 5.5, Bassong 6, Olsson 5.5, Redmond 5.5, O’Neil 6, Mulumbu 6 (Dorrans – 73) 6, Brady 6.5, Howson 6 (Hoolahan – 73) 6, Mbokani 5.5 (Jerome – 73) 6

Subs: Whittaker, Rudd, Lafferty, Odjidja-Ofoe

Manager: Neil 6

Booked: Mulumbu, O’Neil, Olsson, Bassong

Referee: Craig Pawson (South Yorkshire)

MOM: Hazard

Attendance: 41,582

Updated Premier League table

Diego Costa's second half idea is shown regulating Sportsmail's shining Match Zone service. Click here for some-more from a strife during Stamford Bridge.

Diego Costa’s second half idea is shown regulating Sportsmail’s shining Match Zone service. Click here for some-more from a strife during Stamford Bridge.

SUPER STAT

2 – Cesc Fabregas supposing usually his second support of a season, 8 fewer than after 13 games final season.

The involvement from a dais from Mourinho came as he reason behind rather than gathering into a box to bond with a Eden Hazard cranky on a hour. Nothing he did seemed to be a right option.

‘With so many pundits we have in opposite media, some of them were strikers and some of them know a feeling,’ pronounced Mourinho.‘In a initial half he misses dual chances. The second one, in a final notation of a initial half, was unequivocally a large one. So it was critical for him. Important for us, a outcome and a goal, yet we consider also for him.

‘Everything is connected. we consider when we are full of certainty it’s not usually about goals, it’s also about being fluent. You are smooth in your decisions, we select your movements well, we select a series of touches we give to a round well, when to hold, when to keep possession, when to touch, initial touch. When we remove confidence, we remove this smooth game. Yes, he can do most better, yet again, yes, one idea is really important.’

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Matic waltzed past a series of Norwich players late on yet his shot was saved and a divided side managed to clear

All around though, use was sequence of a day for a Chelsea group that had mislaid a final 3 Premier League games. Costa’s miss of fluency is merely a duty of Chelsea’s possess stuttering season. The impending doubt is either one feat can hint something of a rebirth and a justification was decidedly mixed.

Norwich competence be among their chase in Premier League terms – yet they did indeed start a day above them – yet they did adequate in a initial half to advise they competence supplement to Chelsea’s woes. The wilful impulse came on 33 mins when Willian clumsily crashed into Robbie Brady inside a area, a transparent penalty, that arbitrate Craig Pawson declined to award. Conspiracies, it seems, cut both ways.

‘It was a pivotal impulse for both teams,’ pronounced Alex Neil. ‘Quite a lot this deteriorate we haven’t been removing decisions a approach and we should have a chastisement today. We set adult with a plan to perplex them and strike them on a opposite and we consider a initial half we did that really well.’

Norwich had their moments. Only John Terry diving during full widen forestall Sebastien Bassong opening a scoring on 42 mins and Nathan Redmond’s gait again unprotected a debility of Chelsea’s behind four.

That said, on a and side, there was a compactness in their build up, characterised by a stability lapse to form from Hazard. At times he dazzled, personification in a No.10 position. But nobody was able of completing his work; positively not Costa, until that 64th notation redemption.

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Zouma attempts an brazen crack during a nearby post from Cesc Fabregas' dilemma yet a possibility came to nothing

Zouma attempts an brazen crack during a nearby post from Cesc Fabregas’ dilemma yet a possibility came to nothing

A few mins later, a poetic Willian giveaway flog was met by a Kurt Zouma flick, that rebounded off a crossbar. Robbie Brady forced an glorious save from Asmir Begovic from long-range on 68 minutes.

And during a end, it seemed Nemanja Matic, most improved, had a mazy run that finished with him one-on-one with Ruddy, a Norwich screw wanting to be during his best to douse a shot.

But Chelsea had their win and Costa had his goal. And Mourinho, who greeted a final alarm with a small punch of a air, had some respite.

All players wore black armbands around a compare and as we remember a victims of a terrorism attacks