With five defeats from their first 10 league matches, Chelsea find themselves languishing nine points adrift of the top four in 15th place and, to make matters worse, they slumped out of the League Cup in midweek after a penalty shoot-out loss at Stoke City.
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“I’m full of respect for his work”, he said in a pre-match press conference, according to the Daily Mirror.
Liverpool is a big club.
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini is certain Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea will be a threat in the Premier League title race.
Stamford Bridge plays host to the undoubted pick of the weekend’s Premier League fixture list as out of form Chelsea host Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool priced as bet365’s 21/20 favourites to kick-start a flagging start to the new campaign with a victory.
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“They think about football and not pressure and I think they know why they won”.
That poor spell means an awkward match against Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool comes at a particularly inopportune time. I have respect for his work.
“Do the Chelsea players not know how to play football anymore?”
“I think he’s already demonstrated what he can do”.
“A guy I like a lot”, he said of Klopp.
“I feel for him because I had something similar but it’s not the end of the world”. Klopp’s Dortmund beat and drew Mourinho’s side Madrid in the group stages, before knocking them out in the semi-finals with a 4-3 aggregate win.
Chelsea’s ongoing struggles don’t seem to be improving and it is hard to see when their season is going to pick up.
“For 20 minutes against Tottenham they looked a very good outfit”, he told Starsport.
“What I would like to understand is why a few people can be so excited and happy with the perspective of somebody losing his job”, he said.
Striker Diego Costa and fellow Spanish global Pedro will have further fitness checks before the game, when Mourinho is not expecting any great changes from the Liverpool of Brendan Rodgers, whom he once employed at Chelsea.
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“There’s no question of his talent but he’s grown into this ego and personality and at times it has nearly become too much of what he achieves”.
