Jose Mourinho: Chelsea players are NOT worried about Manchester City pressure

JOSE MOURINHO cares little that Chelsea's eight-point advantage over Manchester City has been cut to three at the halfway point of the Premier League season.

00:10, Thu, Jan 1, 2015

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Jose Mourinho's Chelsea face Tottenham today

The Blues have been pace-setters since their opening win at Burnley, with only today's opponents Tottenham temporarily overtaking them on goal difference after two rounds of matches.

Now, after playing all the other 19 teams in the Premier League and ahead of the first return fixture of the season on New Year's Day, Mourinho has reflected on a strong start by his Blues.

"Everybody starts with the same points and if we have one more point than them, we did well," Mourinho said. "We are top of the league at the end of the first round because we deserve it and because it is a consequence of what we did.

"We've been playing very well since the beginning of the season. That's the only thing we work at, the only thing we concentrate on. And in the second part of the season we are going to try to do exactly the same thing."

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City's revival has coincided with a difficult spell on the road for Chelsea, who have dropped points in three of their last four away games in drawing at Sunderland and Southampton and losing at Newcastle.

Chelsea's only other dropped points were at City and at Manchester United, who are 10 points adrift in third in what appears already to be a two-horse title race.

Mourinho has a full squad to choose from for the trip to White Hart Lane to play a Spurs side who are without a win in 10 matches against their London rivals. Tottenham have not beaten Chelsea since April 2010.