• Plan to tackle Manchester United’s Fellaini comes off – after hotel scare
• Mourinho does the title maths but complains about Ander Herrera
• Eden Hazard moves Chelsea closer to title
It said much for the way José Mourinho’s afternoon had panned out that, when reflecting on a grind of a victory over Manchester United that leaves Chelsea two matches from the title, he was still pinpointing his most anxious moment of Saturday as having come around eight hours before kick-off – and in the lobby of the team’s waterfront hotel.
The manager had ambled down to breakfast, content in his week’s tactical preparations in which Ruben Loftus-Cheek filled in as United’s Marouane Fellaini back at Cobham to ensure Kurt Zouma was battle ready for the contest ahead. Then Mourinho bumped into the concierge to be told the Belgian could not be involved as he had just introduced himself at the front desk, dressed in jeans and having his picture taken with guests, and announced himself as “I’m Fellaini” to collect a pair of match tickets left for him by Eden Hazard.
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