Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel believes Jose Mourinho's win-at-all-cost mentality is beginning to rub off on the club's star players.
After a stuttering start to the season, the London side have wpn four of their last five Premier League games to leave them third in the table, just two points off table-toppers Arsenal.
"[Mourinho] always wants us to play in a certain way and give 110 per cent," Mikel is quoted as saying by The Sportmasta. "If you don't, you're out.
"You don't want to slack, you don't want to sit down and think, 'You're the best, I don't want to defend or I don't want to run'. If you don't do those things, you don't play.
"That's the mentality he wants installed in this team and slowly but surely the likes of Eden, Oscar and Willian are beginning to do that.
"What the Premier League and Champions League means to this club. If you don't play for Chelsea, you don't know what these trophies mean to us.
"It's not a team where if you come second, third or fourth, it doesn't matter. No - every year you have to win something and this is the pressure.
"Now they're here, they have to feel the pressure and they are feeling it right now. That's why we just want to keep doing well and now they're starting to understand that we don't want to get beaten."
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