Jose Mourinho will bring Diego Costa back into his Chelsea starting
line-up for Tuesday's Champions League last-16 first-leg trip to Paris
St-Germain.
Costa is available after serving a
three-game ban
for standing on Liverpool's Emre Can on 27 January.
"Yes, I start him," said Mourinho. "But it's not good for a player to be three matches without starting a game. So he's not in the best of condition."
Costa has scored 17 goals in 19 Premier League games this season. Chelsea defeated PSG at the quarter-final stage of last year's competition, since when David Luiz has left Stamford Bridge for the French champions in a £50m transfer. Chelsea lost the first leg at Parc de Princes and needed a late goal from Demba Ba in the second to take them through. Mourinho says he feels it is his team who have changed more since that tie. "Paris is a great team - basically the same team as last season, with David Luiz," he said.
"When you have stability you can always improve. "Chelsea is a different team. We have some different players and we have changed the profile of our game a little bit."
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