In the build up to Saturdays Premier League game against Norwich, Blues boss AVB insists we must concentrate on building momentum and going on a run of victories. On the back of three successive wins, the Blues hope to continue their recent form and decrease the margin between them and the league leaders – Manchester City.

Looking at the weekends match, Villas-Boas is pleased to see Paul Lambert’s Norwich exceeding expectations in the top division. After their 3-1 away win against West Brom last weekend the Canaries fill be full of confidence. AVB told the clubs official website: ‘It’s a great pleasure when teams achieve something with a certain style. Victories are important for motivation, the way they play is very positive, they are fully motivated players with complete commitment to their manager and each other,’ said Villas-Boas.

‘They have had an excellent run of results, and they continue to surprise established teams in the league, which shows the value of the work Paul and his team are doing. ‘We need to find consistency in our own performances, it will be better if we beat Norwich, but I don’t care what happens in the other matches this weekend, we need to do our own job first and foremost.’

The Chelsea boss also hopes that the build up of the match will be about football and not John Terry’s bust up with Anton Ferdinand.
The Blues face QPR for the first time since our club captain reportedly made racists remarks to the QPR defender.

Villas-Boas is asking for both clubs, and the media, to come together to ensure the game passes by without trouble breaking out.
“What are you going to do to make that environment a bit better, in terms of headlines and how much time we’re going to see taken up with Anton v Terry,” said the Portuguese. “If you want to finish, avoid speculation about it, about the return to QPR, a repetition of the images. “We can play our part, but so can the media. “It’s important to kick any discrimination out of the game, but it won’t be a reminder of those incidents. “It’ll be an intense cup game between two London teams, and hopefully it will be well contested between 22 players.”

When asked if Terry would be in the starting eleven the manager reasured us Blues that he will have no problem playing the centre-half.
“I’ll have no problem picking John – not at all.
“He’ll have to compete against three others, but we’ll make the right decision.”

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