Jose Mourinho calls winning the PL title with Chelsea this season an "impossible mission"

After Chelsea’s 1-0 win over Norwich this Saturday, Jose Mourinho acknowledged that finishing in the top 4 was a possible aim, but winning the league was an “impossible mission”, the BBC reported. Interestingly, he added that it was perhaps a mission Tom Cruise could accomplish but it indicated that for the Blues to accomplish such a feat would be complicated.

The reigning English champions have endured an unbelievably poor start to the season and were 16th in the table before the Norwich game and have now leapfrogged the Canaries and are in 15th after beating them. The gap between them and Leicester City at the top of the table is a whopping 14 points and the climb up the table will be slow but Chelsea will be hoping to make that grueling trip.

Mourinho is mindful of the fact that the road for his side is difficult and he reflected the same in his post match comments. The Chelsea boss said: “Fourth position for me is not an impossible mission. If you ask me about winning the the title, I would say impossible mission.”

He then added: “Maybe Tom Cruise can do it but it's complicated.”

As the Portuguese manager said, even fourth position is a tough proposition as they are 12 points adrift of the place that Arsenal currently occupy. It is, however, a quarter way through the season and Chelsea’s points tally is a sad sight. They need to at least come close to a points average of 72 which has been the average of teams that have finished fourth in previous seasons.

Mourinho spoke about what his team need to do to achieve this target, saying: “You have to recover points from four candidates. But one of the teams that go up may also have a little bit of a collapse. The fourth position is a difficult position but a possible target.”

The manager was happy with the day’s result though and even more so because Diego Costa scored as he continued to back his striker who’s been starved of goals lately.

“You don't score goals, you get heavier. Every game that you don't score goals, you get 5kg more. You get heavy and the pressure is there. In the first half he missed two chances. The second one, in the last minute, is really a big one. So it was important for him. He's working well, he's a happy guy, he tries everything. He's positive, so if I had to choose somebody to score the winning goal, I would go exactly with him.” he said.

The Spaniard was on the goalscoring charts but it was Eden Hazard’s rejuvenated performance that captured the eye. The Belgian who has been poor so far seemed to have been filled with some new energy that pushed him to take on players and leave them behind as he did last season. Things are looking up for the Blues if he continues in the same vein.