Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, the hero of English Premier League club said on Friday that striker Diego Kusa and defender Gary Cahill Sakona ready to play against Arsenal in the Community Shield match at the famous Wembley Stadium, London on Sunday to mark the launch of the new football season in England.
Costa and went out injured Spain striker tore a thigh muscle in the background during Chelsea's friendly against Barcelona in the United States, while suspected in wounding Cahill broke his nose after scoring the equalizer against the league champion in the 85th minute of the same match.
Mourinho said at a news conference Friday in his response about the readiness of Costa Cahill: "Yes, everyone is fine."
Costa scored 20 goals in the league last season in his first season with Chelsea after joining the team coming from Aetiliko Madrid for 32 million pounds (50 million dollars), but the striker missed a large number of games last season because of problems in the rear thigh muscles.
However Mourinho does not have any long-term concerns about the fitness of striker, aged 26 years, and said that Luc Remy and Radamel Falcao will compete with Costa strongly during the season.
Mourinho said: "No worries, I'm not worried at all, in this regard, we have a high level three suicide, if one of them was injured, there are two others."
And the Community Shield match is the traditional beginning of the season and combine the Premier League champions and FA Cup but lost its luster in some cases, however Mourinho sees more than a friendly match before the start of the season.
Said Mourinho, who has not lost in front of Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger in 13 direct confrontation: "This is a match between the official and friendly."
He added: "not friendly they are more than that, but also less than a match in the Premier League, I just want my team to achieve the best possible result, I am not interested Barsnal or blacked out and trainer."
He continued: "I did not celebrate any victory over Arsenal in an exaggerated manner or felt especially proud of these victories, it will not squint to drama if we lost to Arsenal in one day."
And left Petr Cech for Chelsea after 11 years at Stamford Bridge to join Arsenal at the end of the season and Mourinho sees no problem in the face of the first goalkeeper to his team previously where it actually happened when Mourinho was coach of Inter Milan and already faced Chelsea before was imminent guard for the team.
Mourinho said on the face of imminent: "There is no problem, it happened already during the face Inter Milan and Chelsea, I think they (Arsenal) have always goalkeepers very good and now grown to have one, I never felt that the weakness of the Arsenal point in Keepers."
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