Jose Mourinho‘s miserable season took another turn for the worse as holders Chelsea were knocked out of the League Cup by Stoke in a penalty shootout.
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The Potters took the lead after Jonathan Walters’ stunning effort in the 52nd minute but Chelsea clawed their way back at the death as Loic Remy rifled home a last-gasp leveller to take the tie into extra-time.
“I think they think my players are like them when they were players”.
“We’d all say Man City are the team we all fancy to win the title but I think for United and Arsenal it may not be the end of the world”. “For me it would be a fantastic situation if the players are against me, I can say, you don’t have results because the players are against me…my players tried everything”.
Chelsea have made one of the worst Premier League starts by a defending champion, picking up just 11 points from their opening 10 games of the season, having lost five of these 10 games.
“I think Christian will be fit on Saturday”.
The Cameroon global fell out with Mourinho when the Portuguese coach was caught on camera suggesting that Eto’o may be older than his official age.
Asked if he had had any more reassurances since the weekend about his job, Mourinho said: “I don’t need more”.
“I felt it was a great penalty, hit with pace, but I managed to go the right way powerfully and get a hand to it”.
With Championship side Hull City and Everton joining Sheffield Wednesday and Stoke in the last eight, both halves of Manchester will be fancying themselves to go all the way in the competition, providing they progress this evening.
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But it’s more hard when you play very badly and you lose. “He showed a bit more dignity and humility yesterday in his post-match press conference, and maybe he regrets a few of the things he’s done in recent weeks”. And if there’s one thing we know about Diego, it’s that if he can walk or there are copious quantities of horse placenta available, he will want to play. It was even more hard to concede with the first shot they had in the second half and then to chase the game. “We were too short in midfield especially tonight and then it was down to not conceding anything from set-pieces [or] on on the counter-attack and unfortunately we did that because we lost balls in situations where we should not have lost the ball”.
