Leicester may have crashed against Arsenal but they’ve drawn with Spurs and Man Utd and beaten West Ham and Palace (who, lest we forget, both have tremendous away records this season) but it’s a nagging doubt that they have only managed a clean sheet against the Eagles.
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“I know when we win it is easier”.
“When people are so nice to me and they sing my name and ‘Stand up for the Special One, ‘ I feel a bit embarrassed”, Mourinho said, “because I don’t know how to react”.
There’s no arguing that Tuesday’s Champions League meeting away to Wolfsburg was an entertaining 90 minutes of football, but the visitors were unable to pick up the win they needed and crashed out of the competition after going down 3-2 in Germany.
“Packs of ready salted flavour crisps with a celebratory image of Vardy and in the colour of Leicester’s Blue will be handed out exclusively to fans at the Leicester City v Chelsea game”. “Ranieri? He has just won manager of the month, although I think he should have won more than that (once)”. I go to Madrid and Claudio goes somewhere else – I don’t remember where, and when he goes to Inter I felt what I always feel, which is I always want Inter to win. I said a couple of weeks ago I don’t believe they can be champions.
“Obviously in the big teams sometimes we face very low blocks where technical players to play in the box are very much needed, but I think a fast player with objective and being direct can have success everywhere”, he added. Another thing is to be top of the league in December.
“The worst thing that can happen to them is to finish top six, which should be a phenomenal season too”.
Mourinho thinks the decision was a mistake and lamented the pressure managers find themselves under in the modern game.
Mourinho’s Chelsea are 14th in the table after 15 games, winning four and losing eight.
Things have also turned around for Mourinho, who led Chelsea to the championship in May but is now under pressure for his job after the team’s worst start to a Premier League title defense.
November’s manager of the month, Ranieri, he said, should be acclaimed as “manager of the half-term” as the season approaches its midway stage with the traditionally busy Christmas period.
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“Maybe we have a chance to dream with a great finish and finish fourth”.
