Carlo Ancelotti will "forget the past" when he picks his Chelsea side to face Manchester United at Old Trafford next weekend.
Ancelotti has insisted his blunder in picking Fernando Torres for Chelsea's Champions League defeat away to United would have no impact on his team selection for next Sunday's must-win Premier League clash.
Chelsea remain in the title race after a fortunate 2-1 win over Tottenham on Saturday, with Frank Lampard's equaliser given despite the whole of the ball appearing not to cross the line.
Ancelotti admitted he made a mistake by selecting Torres against United earlier this month, a move which backfired as the Blues crashed out.
The Spaniard was relegated to the bench for the next three games and Chelsea duly rediscovered top form, with Didier Drogba running amok.
But after watching Torres finally score his first goal for the club in last week's win over West Ham, Ancelotti decided to gamble again by recalling the £50million striker against Spurs.
The results were debatable, with Torres struggling to get in behind the Spurs defence and Drogba subdued on the right-hand side of a three-man attack until Ancelotti abandoned the experiment just past the hour mark.
Chelsea were rewarded with the luckiest of 2-1 victories - Salomon Kalou offside when scoring the late winner - to extend their run to eight wins and a draw from the last nine league games and keeping their title hopes alive.
But Ancelotti claimed he would ignore the evidence of Saturday and events at Old Trafford almost three weeks earlier when picking his side next Sunday.
"To make a decision about the line-up, I have to forget the past," he said. "I have to look at the next training session.
"It's important to have players in good form, in good condition. If we want to win there, we have to use intensity."
Ancelotti denied recalling Torres had disrupted Chelsea's attack, which had been looking so effective with Drogba flanked by Salomon Kalou and Florent Malouda.
"I think that the problem was not the position of Fernando," Ancelotti said. "The first 20 minutes were good, Fernando was involved.
"After that we had more difficulties to pass the ball to him. But his performance individually was good and Didier also sacrificed a bit because he played a little bit behind him, but he played for the team."
Any unhappiness Drogba may have felt about being played out of position was nothing compared to that of substitute Kalou, who could not even bring himself to celebrate his 89th-minute winner after being dropped for Torres.
Captain John Terry played down any talk of a rift, saying: "No arguing amongst the players, no disappointments.
"We understand it's a team game and they've all got so much to give to this team. That could be key."
It was Tottenham who left Stamford Bridge with the greatest sense of burning injustice as two goals that should not have stood all but destroyed their hopes of finishing fourth.
Each assistant referee blundered in awarding Frank Lampard's equaliser - which did not cross the line - and Kalou's winner, which came from an offside position.
But had Spurs goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes not spilt Lampard's tame 35-yarder towards his own goal while the visitors were leading 1-0, poor officiating may not have come into it.
Manager Harry Redknapp refused to "crucify" his keeper, who has made several gaffes down the years.
"He doesn't keep doing it," Redknapp insisted. "He's done it a couple of times."
With a second season of Champions League football looking unlikely, Redknapp sent out a thinly-veiled message about what was needed at White Hart Lane this summer.
"Now we can play the Chelseas, we can play the Arsenals, we can play all these teams," he said. "What we need to do now in the summer is to make sure that we're still positive.
"If we don't make the Champions League this year we can't suddenly throw the towel in and say, 'We've not made the Champions League, that's the end of Tottenham. We're going back to being eighth or ninth or 10th in the league'.
"This is a club that can win a championship in the next couple of years. We've got the nucleus of a fantastic team.
"We need to go and add one or two to that team now and shift one or two who are not in the team out on loan.
"Make sure that we keep looking to push on now, not take a backwards step."
