Chelsea striker Diego Costa is back in training and COULD face Man Utd on Sunday - 7M sport

Chelsea striker Diego Costa is back in training and COULD face Man Utd on Sunday



Posted Saturday, October 25, 2014 by Express.co.uk

CHELSEA striker Diego Costa has a 'chance' of playing against Manchester United on Sunday (4pm).

Chelsea striker Diego Costa is back in training and COULD face Man Utd on Sunday
Jose Mourinho says Diego Costa has a 'small chance' of facing Manchester United

Costa was hospitalised during the week after contracting a virus and may recover in time to help Chelsea maintain their unbeaten start to the season.

The Spanish international has already missed Chelsea's last two matches with a recurrence of his long term hamstring injury, and the virus only compounded the forward's misery.

But Mourinho says there is a chance the striker will play at Old Trafford, he said: "He has a chance, he has a little chance.

"Everything has happened to him, he was obviously injured, he had to go to the hospital with a viral situation that we didn't manage to resolve without being in the hospital over one night."

He continued to say that Costa was struck down before their Champions League fixture with Maribor, but said even without the virus he wouldn't have been ready to play.

"Against Maribor he wouldn't have been ready from his injury, no chance.

"He is individually training, not with the rest of us."

Mourinho was keen to express caution over the return of his coveted striker, repeating that they were 'trying' to get him fit.

"I'm not saying he can [play on Sunday], I'm saying we are trying - we will see what happens between today, tomorrow and Sunday."

Louis van Gaal will be hopeful of exploiting Chelsea's striking uncertainty to inflict a surprise victory over the London club.



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