"No ofende quien quiere sino quien puede" (- Rafa Benitez – Liverpool Manager)
Mourinho simply had no appetite for a fight, failing to even cry "conspiracy" when reminded that the game's referee is, like Liverpool’s manager, a Spaniard.
Jose Mourinho, last Wednesday: 'If you're not a big club, you choose one competition, fight in that and forget the others. Big clubs, we cannot do this. And three years without a Premiership? I don't think I'd still be in charge if it happened at Chelsea"
"One-nil is a lead," said Mourinho. "But we are playing our opponents at their home and we are playing opponents who have had a week to rest. Two days ago we had to fight physically and mentally in the title race. So Chelsea as favourites? I don’t see that."
Champions League Semi Final 2nd Leg
Liverpool 1 v 0 Chelsea (1 v 1 on agg)
Liverpool win 4 v 1 on penalties
"It is the most heartbreaking moment of my time at Chelsea, and it is all the harder to take when you consider we were the best team," Mourinho said. "We were the only team trying to win it in 90 minutes and again in extra time. But football is like this, and in 10 years or so no one will remember that we were the best team and should have won. All I saw was one team in blue playing without any problems and trying to win the game"
Mourinho simply had no appetite for a fight, failing to even cry "conspiracy" when reminded that the game's referee is, like Liverpool’s manager, a Spaniard.
Jose Mourinho, last Wednesday: 'If you're not a big club, you choose one competition, fight in that and forget the others. Big clubs, we cannot do this. And three years without a Premiership? I don't think I'd still be in charge if it happened at Chelsea"
"One-nil is a lead," said Mourinho. "But we are playing our opponents at their home and we are playing opponents who have had a week to rest. Two days ago we had to fight physically and mentally in the title race. So Chelsea as favourites? I don’t see that."
Champions League Semi Final 2nd Leg
Liverpool 1 v 0 Chelsea (1 v 1 on agg)
Liverpool win 4 v 1 on penalties
"It is the most heartbreaking moment of my time at Chelsea, and it is all the harder to take when you consider we were the best team," Mourinho said. "We were the only team trying to win it in 90 minutes and again in extra time. But football is like this, and in 10 years or so no one will remember that we were the best team and should have won. All I saw was one team in blue playing without any problems and trying to win the game"
Jose Mourinho - You are the Weakest Link - goodbye
