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    Home»Sports»Everyone Will Want To Draw Us – Mourinho

    Everyone Will Want To Draw Us – Mourinho

    Sports By David F.Dec 10, 2015No Comments3 Mins Read
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    JoseJose Mourinho hopes Chelsea’s progress to the Champions League last 16 will bring back his side’s gone confidence and help save his job.

    Mourinho was close to being sacked until Chelsea avoided elimination from Europe’s elite club competition with a 2-0 win over Porto at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday.

    Needing one point to ensure they made it to the knockout stages, Chelsea got a timely piece of good fortune through Ivan Marcano’s early own goal before Willian’s second half strike completed a victory that lifted the west Londoners to the top of Group G and eased the pressure on Mourinho.

    The sight of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich grinning and exchanging high-fives with his entourage afer Willian’s goal suggested Mourinho has bought himself a little time to get the Premier League champions back on track.

    And the beleaguered Blues boss took heart from the way his players, reportedly mutinous at times during a dismal campaign, responded to the prospect of having to fight to spare him from Abramovich’s axe.

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    “The thing that I’m more happy with apart from the result is the players accepted the challenge of playing to win, even though we only needed a draw,” Mourinho said.

    “That is not so easy when the pressure is so high and the results are bad in this difficult period.

    “Being in the Champions League is very important. Being here is the minimum we can give to our supporters.

    “The results are not as good as the way we are working every day, but after our first goal we were more relaxed and confident.”

    With Chelsea’s domestic form so poor, Mourinho conceded there is only an outside chance they could qualify for next season’s Champions League via a top four finish.

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    That makes winning the Champions League the more likely route back into the competition and, in a transparent bid to take the pressure off his team, Mourinho labelled the Blues as also-rans who would be the preferred choice of all their potential opponents in Monday’s last 16 draw.

    Chelsea will face Paris Saint Germain, PSV Eindhoven, Juventus, Roma, Benfica or Gent and Mourinho said: “A team that is struggling like us is obviously not a candidate to win the Champions League.

    “The best teams in Europe are in the Champions League. But when we won with Porto in 2004 we were not candidates and when we won with Inter Milan in 2010 we were not candidates.

    EVERYBODY WANTS US “When we were candidates with Real Madrid we lost two semifinals and the same with Chelsea, so you never know.

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