Chelsea football team manager Jose Mourinho has insisted that his team is not invincible and they would be beaten between now and May, despite winning seven of their eight opening matches.
Mourinho's pessimism is reportedly understandable given it is a decade since a team went through an entire Premier League campaign undefeated.
However, few sides seem as capable of matching Arsenal's feat of 2003-04 as the current leaders, who following their triumph over Crystal Palace have won seven of their opening eight matches and drawn the most difficult fixture they would face all season; a visit to the champions, Manchester City, The Guardian reported.
Chelsea has the talent, desire and strength in numbers to become the Invincibles II, traits that were all on show during Saturday's triumph.
Crucially they also have the manager, with Mourinho coming as close as anyone to matching Arsenal when he led Chelsea to the title in the 2004-05 season, his first in charge at Stamford Bridge, with just one league loss.
Yet Mourinho is ruling out Chelsea's chances of making history. He said that his team could not remain undefeated this season.
Mourinho said that this is the Premier League and in this moment, 10 years after the last one to do it, football has changed so much, and the league has changed so much that it's impossible to do it.
The manager is stressing caution, but after such a blistering start to the season he cannot fully hide his belief in this Chelsea side.
Mourinho said that the club is reaching that level of his 2005 and 2006 title-winning Chelsea sides. He added that in his first spell they had players with great maturity and knowledge.
Mourinho said that last year his team was naive, so they work and in this moment he is happy. He added that they are not a perfect team but this is a better team.
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