{"id":20101,"date":"2015-08-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=20101"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"chelsea-striker-an-opening-day-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp\/2015\/08\/03\/chelsea-striker-an-opening-day-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Striker An Opening Day Doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Costa picked up an injury in the Champions tour of North America in pre-season and it was a repeat of the hamstring injury that he was troubled by for large parts of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Garry Monk said this week he wasn&#8217;t worried about whether Costa would play or not but with him missing out on the game at Wembley you do wonder whether there is more to this than just speculation.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho was of course giving nothing away and he said &#8220;I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be fit. 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