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		</div><p>Chelsea head coach Antonio Conte is taking time to find a solution to replace Diego Costa.</p>
<p>Costa, scorer of 13 goals as Chelsea top the Premier League table by six points, is suspended for the St Stephen&#8217;s Day clash with Bournemouth.</p>
<p>And Conte is considering tinkering with the 3-4-3 formation which has seen his side win a club record 11 straight Premier League games to compensate for the unavailability of Costa.</p>
<p>Michy Batshuayi could be a straight replacement or Conte could deploy two central forwards, amending his 3-4-3 formation.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I have four days to evaluate the situation and to try to find the best solution for the team,&#8221;</i> Conte said.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;For sure Diego is an important player for us, but in these days we are working to find the right solution.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the squad I can have different solutions for his substitution.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are working to find the right solution with the right men in the right place to try to continue this way, to try to continue to win.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>N&#8217;Golo Kante will also serve a one-match ban for accumulating five yellow cards and the France midfielder, a Premier League champion with Leicester last season, is also difficult to replace.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;For this reason, this is a good test for us, because we play this game without two players very important for our team,&#8221;</i> Conte added.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;It&#8217;s important in this test to evaluate the group situation in our squad, also to give the possibility to play some player that until now is not playing a lot or to find another solution.</p>
<p>&#8220;What my eye sees in this game is very important.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Chelsea players had three days off this week; Costa and Kante were given an additional day&#8217;s break.</p>
<p>Conte wanted to refresh minds as well as bodies with the time off, but now has told his players to be unrelenting in their winning sequence.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The most important thing is to recover, not only with your body, above all with your head,&#8221;</i> he added.</p>
<p>Arsenal hold the record of 14 successive wins in the Premier League era, with Chelsea able to equal Manchester United&#8217;s 12 with victory over the Cherries. Both the Gunners and United&#8217;s winning runs spanned two seasons.</p>
<p>And Conte won 12 straight Serie A games with Juventus in 2013-14, when they won 33 of 38 games.</p>
<p>But given Chelsea lost at home to Bournemouth last season in the final weeks of Jose Mourinho&#8217;s reign, Conte is taking nothing for granted.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like the stats,&#8221;</i> Conte added.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I prefer to be focused every game and to think, to take three points, to increase our table (tally).</p>
<p>&#8220;In the past when we won all these games (with Juventus) the championship was very good for us. I think now it&#8217;s different.</p>
<p>&#8220;This league there are many teams that can fight for the Champions League, for the title, for the Europa League.</p>
<p>&#8220;For this reason it&#8217;s important to continue in this way, not stop.</p>
<p>&#8220;We all know that it won&#8217;t be easy, but we have to try to continue this way, with all our strength.&#8221;</i></p>
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