Mourinho and Chelsea pulled off a tactical master class over Manchester United yesterday (Saturday) but after the game, Mourinho was quick to emphasise the players know we haven’t won the league yet. He said the celebrations were because we had beaten a big team.
“The celebrations were because we beat one of the biggest teams in the world. I understand that. The players gave everything to win the game and they felt the result of the work they’d done all week to prepare.”
He also wanted to highlight, just because we didn’t have a lot of possession or many shots, it was still a good performance from the players.
The team were fantastic. I’m the one that knows how fantastic they were because the game was exactly what we wanted. When you manage to play the game you want to play, it’s fantastic. The players were magnificent, on top of that Eden had that magic the top players have, especially in big matches.
“Matic worked like an animal, Zouma put Fellaini out of the game, our number 11 [Drogba] was another animal, fighting against two kids young enough to be his sons. Hazard was what you know, Oscar worked fantastically well, Ramires came in and gave us what we needed, Mikel came in for two minutes and held the ball.”
Mourinho also stated we just need to keep doing what we are already doing until the end of the season.
We need to win matches. What we can say is that we play for nine points at home, we can be champions just from the matches we play at home. But obviously if we can get points away it’s better.
