OOJ - Ramires in action
This weekend the league leader take on Newcastle, the team who ended their unbeaten start to the season, but Ramires says the last match between the two sides will have no bearing on Saturday's game.
That defeat finally brought a club record-equalling run of 23 matches in all competitions without loss to an end, as Chelsea FC succumbed 2-1 at St James' Park, but the Brazilian midfielder doesn't expect either set of players to be thinking about December's result come kick-off at 3pm on Saturday.
'It will be a totally different game from the one last month,' said Ramires. 'Since then we've played a lot of games, some games that we've won and one that we lost, but on Saturday we just need to play as well as we have been playing recently.
'Newcastle are a good team, you can see that, and we know how difficult it is to play against them from our earlier matches, but we just have to be prepared and do our best.'
Chelsea No7 also thinks that home advantage could work in our favour at Stamford Bridge, just as it did for the Magpies in Newcastle last time around.
'When they played at their ground they had a real go at us because they were in front of their fans, but at home we want to impose ourselves in front of our own fans, so it could be a totally different kind of game,' he explained.
'Now this is our home game, they might not come out and go for it as much as they did in Newcastle, or they could come and try to surprise us by really going for it, so there's no point going into Saturday expecting to replay the same game as we did in December.'
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