Chelsea boss, Jose Mourinho, has revealed that striker Diego Costa, will be out for “a couple of weeks minimum”, after he limped out of their 2-1 victory over Stoke City on Saturday.
The Spain international started the game on the bench, but was introduced at the break with the scoreline at 1-1.
Costa lasted just 10 minutes, before he left the pitch with a recurrence of a hamstring injury. He was replaced by veteran striker Didier Drogba.
When Mourinho was asked after the game how long he would be out for, he replied: “I don’t know but for sure, muscular injury, a couple of weeks minimum. But lets see what happens.
“To be fair, the important [thing] is the three points today.”
Mourinho also insisted that the 26-year-old had been examined by the club’s medical department and passed all the necessary tests. He confirmed that Loic Remy will start next week at Queens Park Rangers, while refusing to blame the medics.
“You have to risk, and the medical department risked a little bit, but the truth is that in all the scans they did two days ago – not even yesterday – two days ago, the muscle was clean, the image was completely clean, and the player trained twice,” he added.
“He trained twice 100 per cent, where he did much more in training that he did today. He did much more in training than today.
“He shot lots of times, we put him in dozens and dozens of specific actions in the game and the response was very good. We decided to protect and if the result was two or three-nil he wouldn’t play and we would give him one more week.
“But we risk. My medical department is fantastic and they do fantastic things for us during the whole season, so no problem, and next weekend Remy plays, then Drogba plays while we will wait for Diego again.”
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