Friday 19 December 2014

LIVERPOOL TO MEET CHELSEA IN CAPITAL ONE SEMI-FINAL

Liverpool are to meet the league leader in the capital one semi-final tile after beating Bournemouth 3-1.Chelsea also won their match against Derby County 3-1 in the away tile. Brender Rogers told Sky sports "to win this competition you have to win games against big sides" 
"The most important thing was getting through but our performance was brilliant.We'er into the semi-final, it's over two legs and it didn't matter who we got. We needed to get there, it's Chelsea and we look forward to it."
 Mourinho won his first trophy with Chelsea beating Liverpool in the league cup in 2005 and Chelsea has beaten Liverpool 2-1 in their league clash this season.
On the other side Tottenham will meet Sheffield United after the crushed Newcastel 4-0 while Sheffield beat Southampton to book their semi-final clash. The first leg of the encounter will be 19th Jan; second legs: 26th Jan.

Thursday 11 December 2014

MOURINHO NOT AFRAID OF ANY TEAM AS CHELSEA TOPS


Following the 3-1 win against sporting lisbon on wed. which is the last day of the group matches. Chelsea was able to top the group with four wins from six games scoring 17goals to tops the highest scoring team in the group stage . The round of 16 draw will pair chelsea agaist either Juventus, PSG, Bayern leverkusen, Basel or Shakhtar Donetsk.
Though Chelsea might have avoided the likes of Real Madrid ,Bayern Munich and Barcelona who toped their respective group and this could be a very hard-nut to crack for the Blues.
Mourinho said they are not afraid of  any team and stated that "the real Champions League starts now- Barcelona is there, Real madrid is there, Arsenal and Man.City are there".
" I am happy to see premier league rivals  Man.City and Arsenal also reach the last 16 hoping they all do well".
Mourinho continued "we have Liverpool, Tottenham and Everton  in the Europa League, so I wish them good too".
 He is also happy that their direct opponents in premier league are still involve in European competition except Man United who have much more advantage just like Liverpool had last season.