Mourinho: Chelsea still best around

Jose Mourinho has backed Chelsea to bounce straight back
from their first Premier League defeat of the season, saying:
"We are better than anybody else."
Mourinho's Blues were beaten 2-1 at Newcastle on
Saturday, ending their unbeaten run and seeing their lead at
the top of the table cut to three points by defending champions
Manchester City.
But the manager -- who pointed the finger at Newcastle's
ball boys after the result, which he called an "anomaly" -- said
he expected an instant response from his players.
"We are top of the league," he added. "Nobody has done
better than us. Everyone would like to be in our position. So
we are more than fine. We are better than anybody else."
"I will back them [the players] to bounce back. For people like
me who have been in football for so long, you have to accept
this anomaly.
"To come here and be better than our opponents and lose, that
is football.
"I don't say my team is the best, I say my team is top of the
league and, at this moment, nobody has the same points we
have. Because of that, at the moment we're the best team in
the Premier League."
The Portuguese said his players were "accepting the defeat as
part of the game" saying they had "tried everything, were
unlucky and are not happy with that."
And he said he was not worried about the fitness of 32
million-pound summer signing Diego Costa, who has struggled
to regain his early-season goal-scoring form following a
succession of hamstring problems.
"He has to recover, but I don't think there is any problem," he
said. "For me, the problem is not the goals. The goals will
come as a consequence of his condition."