The Revenge of Jose Mourinho – Inter Milan beats Chelsea

JOSE MOURINHO got his ‘perfect’ revenge on Chelsea to send them crashing out of Europe last night.

The former Blues boss said Inter played the ‘perfect game’ to book a Champions League quarter-final spot.

And then Mourinho, sacked by Stamford Bridge owner Roman Abramovich in 2007 despite winning five trophies, warned he could come back to haunt Chelsea again – with an English rival.

He said: “Today my team played the perfect game and that is why we won.

Mourinho punches the air after Inter Milan scores a goal

“Sometimes in football you win because you’re lucky, or because something happens during the game that makes the ball go to one side not to the other.

“Sometimes you win because you are the best team. Sometimes you win because you were the best team from the first to last minute.

“That team was my team, and my players. I’m very happy for them and for Inter’s supporters, who have had this period of not getting to the quarter-finals for a few years.

“And I’m happy for myself because I worked so much to achieve this. This was a perfect game and perfect games do not happen very often.”

Chelsea had Didier Drogba sent off in a match which saw them denied two penalty claims in the first half.

Mourinho did not celebrate the 78th-minute winner by Samuel Eto’o extravagantly but admitted he was more exuberant in the dressing room.

He said: “I celebrate a lot in the dressing room. If I come here again I could coach another English team and come here as an opponent again.

“I’m happy because I won, not because they lost. I’m very happy because my players are happy, my supporters are happy, my president is happy and because I worked so much for this game.

“As a professional, that’s the best feeling you can have. I’m not happy because my ex-players or Roman lost, or that Chelsea supporters go home sad. I’m not happy about their unhappiness.

“But that’s life. Yesterday I exchanged texts with John Terry and I told him that one of us would be sad today. That’s life.”

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