チェルシー、きょうＣＬ準決勝 リヴァプールにリベンジなるか その３

Champions League

	チェルシー、きょうＣＬ準決勝　リヴァプールにリベンジなるか その３ Jose Mourinho -manager of Chelsea- press conference before the game against Liverpool 2 Q:Why do you think Liverpool is the favourite? JM: For example, because year after 2007, so three and the half monthes almost four monthes we played 27 matches. and Liverpool played three or four (23 or 24). is simple, is objective. Q: JM: Of course, of course. There's no miracles in football. We are concentrated in every game two or three days. played mentally you have to focus to win every matches, not to lose matches, every game is a high responsibility. You could see for example this weekend, the difference between Middlesbrough and Manchester, and you had seen Newcastle and Chelsea. Man United -and Newcastle was better than Chelsea, is different. that why I said it. and Man United in conditions, great season for us, and I speak for me. I don't speak for them. I think we have to give up everything more than so I like we did. What we did is enough and enough, almost All you need go over the almost, almost football is not enough. 'Chelsea and Man United are the two teams in Europe living on the one side, a happy moment because we are in every competition. On the other side, we are living a very difficult moment to face all we have to face. So if you ask me about the favourites tomorrow, I don't like very much the word, but if you push me, at this moment, I would say Liverpool should be the favourite. I think it's easy to understand, of course Liverpoll played 22 or 23 matches. but they rest players. Steven Gerrard, he didn't play the last game (from the starting, I think). Do you think Steven and Lampard, they have the same conditions? to compete one against one against each other tomorrow? I don't think it would be fair - fair fight, because the conditions are different. The game before they played Barcelona, Liverpool was one week in Portugal, preparing the game. In that week we played 2 or 3 matches. you know we played Carling Cup, we had a final in Carling Cup, we played FA Cup. We had 2 matches against Tottenham, and we played 24 hours after Premiership game, we had Blackburn semi-final. we had extra time, we had 2 behind game against Valencia, you did same in SB (Stamford Bridge) - we didn't play against PSV you know, it's completely different. so if you ask me, do you think we can win? that with the difference you owe my opinion may -- not the right words, victim. I think more conditions, more possibility will be there. Q: United title JM: If you go to speak for the game, because many many times the game goes in direction where we don't want to go like against --, we played game at home, our intention is not -from beginning, - play for the game to play try to win, you know, I don't know how the game - in the last 2 years in Champions League, we are correct, four games between like we right games, I think many many times the game goes in wrong direction we don't want to go, maybe tomorrow, we are waiting for another game without goals, and who knows, is the game lots of goals, Q: JM: No, I don't think so, I don't think so, I think we are everything like situation, 2 years ago, Liverpool just playing for Champions League and this season they are only with it and in Champions League 2 years ago, we fight to be champions and in fact the game we played before them, this season we fighting to be champions, again, and in the first season we had lot of injuries, and now we have lot of injuries. and also so much suspensions, and we can say that our opponent is preparing for the game for a long long time and we started it since Saturday. So we are as well equipped as we were two years ago, but in football you never know, 2 years ago, we coudn't reach the final in 2 matches without goals. and we'll see what happen in end. *********************************** JM: It wouldn't surprise me if tomorrow they chase Drogba for 90 minutes, trying to get him suspended for the second game. JM: Liverpool are a great team in knockout competitions, we have to praise them for that. But if you only play one competition for half of the season, you arrive into this crucial part of the season in a great situation for this.'

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