Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho reacts before the Champions League Group G soccer match between Dynamo Kiev and Chelsea FC in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, October 20, 2015.
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Wenger escaped punishment for that outburst while Mourinho was last week fined 50,000 pounds ($77,205) and given a one-match suspended stadium ban for saying referees were afraid to give penalties for his team following a defeat by Southampton.
Even in praising referee Roger East after Chelsea’s 2-0 victory against Aston Villa on Saturday, Mourinho remarked that he was “not weak and naive”, per Sky Sports’ Tom McKeown.
Mourinho felt Chelsea had been denied a spot-kick for a second successive Champions League away game, following the loss at Porto in the last round.
After calling the official “weak and naive”, he added: “I can not understand what the goal referee does, because he doesn’t make a clear decision, too”.
South African Craig Joubert was heavily criticised after awarding Australia a late penalty in Sunday’s quarter-final.
The display of the referee gave Mourinho all the ammunition he needed after the game, when he took what the Daily Telegraph calls a “sarcastic swipe” at Arsenal boss Wenger.
“If I look into the Chelsea dressing room now, do I think the majority of players would like to see the back of him?” “We hit the post, we had the penalty”. We had everything, but we didn’t score. But at the same time we can not lose. The Blues are still far off from their level of play from last season but slowly but surely, with the help of Nemanja Matic, they will once again reach that pinnacle.
With Dynamo and Porto to visit Stamford Bridge, on November 4 and December 9 respectively, Terry believes progress to the knockout stages is very much in Chelsea’s control.
‘Branislav Ivanovic has been labelled as a player who hasn’t performed this season, which may be true, but if you do it with one or two players to get a reaction, that’s fair enough, but I think he has done it to a lot of them now.
Dynamo Kiev should prove a tough test thanks in part to their impressive home record, they have lost only one game in ten at home in European competitions.
“We kept a clean sheet which is a positive and it is not a bad result”.
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“The result is acceptable because it keeps us in a strong position”.
