Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech has insisted that there is much more to winning a Premier League title than simply playing entertaining football.
The Blues are occasionally held up as an example of grinding efficency rather then pleasing fluency, but the Czech Republic international maintains that grit is as important as style when it comes to collecting trophies.
"You can't win the Premier League only playing great football," the shot-stopper told his club's official website.
"If there is a game when you have to defend and defend and win 1-0 and you can't do it, I don't think you are going to win enough games."
Chelsea face Tottenham Hotspur at the weekend at White Hart Lane, a venue where they have not won since 2006.
Cech is convinced that the Blues' run of poor form against their London neighbours is about to end, as he looks to put memories of last season's bomb-scare disrupted day in north London behind him.
"It is always like this in football," he added.
"Sometimes you have a long series when you beat your opponent every time you play them and then one day it can stop."
The Blues are occasionally held up as an example of grinding efficency rather then pleasing fluency, but the Czech Republic international maintains that grit is as important as style when it comes to collecting trophies.
"You can't win the Premier League only playing great football," the shot-stopper told his club's official website.
"If there is a game when you have to defend and defend and win 1-0 and you can't do it, I don't think you are going to win enough games."
Chelsea face Tottenham Hotspur at the weekend at White Hart Lane, a venue where they have not won since 2006.
Cech is convinced that the Blues' run of poor form against their London neighbours is about to end, as he looks to put memories of last season's bomb-scare disrupted day in north London behind him.
"It is always like this in football," he added.
"Sometimes you have a long series when you beat your opponent every time you play them and then one day it can stop."
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