By Sanu Akingbola

Jose Mourinho is able to name Diego Costa in his squad for tomorrow’s home game against Queens Park Rangers, and welcomes what he describes as a fantastic selection problem.

The centre-forward is available having missed four games since playing twice for Spain, and is also joined in the squad by Ramires who has overcome a muscle injury sustained during the match at Manchester City in September.

Loic Remy remains out. Mourinho anticipates he will be back from his groin injury after the international break in mid-November. John Mikel Obi also misses the QPR game due to a small knee problem that troubled the Nigerian in the win at Shrewsbury.

‘It is difficult when only one striker is available, when you have two obviously the situation improves,’ said Mourinho after announcing Diego Costa’s return to fitness at his pre-match media conference.

‘Not having Mikel is not good for us, he is always an option, but the fact we recovered Ramires is a compensation for that loss, so the situation is a bit better.’

With the next round of international matches coming after next weekend’s visit to Liverpool, Mourinho confirmed nothing can be done to stop Diego Costa’s involvement if Spain want to field the player.

‘I am always supportive of players playing for countries, when the players are in condition to do it and when the players in the national teams, they follow the same kind of programme to recover from the problems they have,’ he added.   

‘Everyone knows the time Diego was having problems at Chelsea and the way we managed to keep him playing, and then after the national team we lost him for four matches in three different competitions. Now he is available again but he needs obviously to be again under special care and we are going to do that, it is the only thing we can do.’

Mourinho now has to decide whether Diego Costa goes straight back into the starting 11 for this weekend’s game or whether Didier Drogba, following a goal in each of the last three matches.

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