Nemanja Matic says Chelsea 'want to be new Invincibles' with unbeaten year

Chelsea midfielder Nemanja Matic is the first Chelsea player
to go on record and suggest Jose Mourinho's side are capable
of progressing through this entire Premier League season
without losing a game.
Mourinho and his players have been quick to downplay
suggestions that they can emulate Arsenal's achievement from
the 2003-04 campaign and become English football's new
"Invincibles," but Matic has his eye on that title.
"We are in a determined mood and there is more pressure for
us because we want to go through the season unbeaten. We
want to be the new Invincibles," he said in quotes appearing in
the Daily Mirror.
"I want to win every game if possible. People can say the
unbeaten record is putting more pressure on us, but I would
rather have it this way because winning is never boring.
"When you win, training feels better and so does playing
matches. I don't know if we are better than the Chelsea team
who won the title 10 years ago, but we know our qualities and
we are a stylish team."
Matic went on to warn his Chelsea teammates that one defeat
could derail their Premier League title challenge, after he was
a part of the Benfica side that went through the 2012-13 season
unbeaten until their penultimate match, but still lost out in a
tight title race to FC Porto.
"Of course we feel we can carry on winning, the confidence is
there," he added. "We have approached all the games in the
right context and tried to win them all, but I have been on a
run like this before, at Benfica, when we went unbeaten for
nearly the whole season. We lost the title in the penultimate
game of the season when we lost for the first time against
Porto, who went on to win the title.
"We played really well the whole season and were unbeaten
for so long, but Porto also won every game. It was so hard
to take. We lost the title, the Europa League and the
Portuguese Cup in two weeks. These things happen maybe
once in a thousand years.
"It shows what can happen and it's a lesson for Chelsea. It
shows you can never be certain of anything in football. If we
want to win the Premier League, we must continue playing
like this in every game -- right until the end.
"Even if we are still top and unbeaten with two games to go,
we must not believe we have won it. We must not stop until
the title is ours. We must keep going until it is definitely won.
"Benfica is an example that anything can happen in the end.
And in England, there are a lot of teams who can beat you
and stop you from winning the title. We must fight and at
Chelsea I believe we are ready for that."