According to The Telegraph, Chelsea striker Diego Costa has admitted that the reason he has suffered with form is because he returned from the summer break overweight.
Following the Blues’ worst start to a Premier League season for 37 years, owner Roman Abramovich took the unusual route of giving boss Jose Mourinho his full support in an official statement that was released by the current champions.
Former Atletico Madrid striker is aware that he must take the blame for his lack of form since the current campaign got underway. The Spaniard hasn’t had a great start, only netting one goal in his last six games and has just finished a three-match suspension he picked up following his antics against Arsenal.
This time last season, the Spanish striker had already netted eight times, but the 27-year-old admits celebrating far too much over the summer.
Before returning to pre-season training, Mourinho had given his players an extra week off to rest.
I’m going to be very honest. Maybe a few weeks ago, five of six weeks ago, I was not on top of my game. At least physically.
We talk within the players and we know that maybe at the beginning we were not 100 per cent as we were supposed to be when we got here. I got injured at the end of the season and then I went on holiday. Maybe I got out of my diet and when I came back I was not the way I was supposed to be. I was a little bit overweight. That affected my game.
You can be selfish and blame it on the manager, but I’m not going to do that. I’m responsible 100 per cent and so are the other guys. We know we’re not in the best form we were supposed to be at the beginning of the season.
We need to blame the players because we came back from holiday very confident, and we thought we could go back into how it was last season, and then when we actually realised in the situation where we were, the team was already in a bad situation. So all we can do now is train very hard and work very hard, and try to get back to that level where we were the season before.
