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Jose Mourinho: Cesc Fabregas a dream teammate for Diego Costa at Chelsea

Jose Mourinho says playing in front of Cesc Fabregas is "the dream of every striker" as the playmaker continued his budding relationship with Diego Costa to lead Chelsea to a 4-2 victory over Swansea on Saturday.

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Garry Monk's side took the lead at Stamford Bridge through an early John Terry own goal, but Costa headed in from a Fabregas corner for the hosts' equaliser on the stroke of half-time.

The Spain internationals combined once again on 56 minutes with Costa putting the Blues ahead with the striker netting his hat-trick -- and seventh of the season -- 11 minutes later.

"To play with Fabregas is the dream of every striker," Mourinho told the club's official website. "The guy sees the movement, sees the pass, is not selfish, makes always the right choice."

Fabregas -- who now has six assists in four Premier League games this season -- added: "[I'm] just trying to do my job. That's it. We have a good team, strong, young, with a lot of courage. We showed it again."

Chelsea now face Schalke in their opening Champions League Group G game on Wednesday before a trip to Premier League champions Manchester City next weekend, and Mourinho believes his defence will have to tighten up after conceding five goals in their last two games.

"I don't like [conceding], but we were analysing the goals against Everton and trying to identify the mistakes and we'll do the same thing with these two goals [against Swansea]," Mourinho added.

"If you score more goals than the opponent you win, but you want to be more consistent behind because it's not possible to always score four, five, six or three.

"There will come a time when we need a point and a 0-0 is a point or we need a victory and 1-0 is also a victory."

New recruit Loic Remy scored just nine minutes into his Chelsea career after replacing Costa in the second half, and the former QPR striker is targeting more game time and goals despite the Spaniard's scintillating form.

"For me it was amazing,'' he said. "I'm a striker and a striker wants to score. I was very happy after the goal and after the result.

"Diego Costa is on fire at the minute and that's good for the team. It's good for the team to have his quality. I really hope we're going to stay at the same level. Even if I'm on the bench I try to do my best and score goals."

Information from the Press Association was used in this report.

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