Mourinho mocks Pellegrini on Champions League blunder ahead of Man City clash

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Jose Mourinho

Jose Mourinho

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has started a fire ahead of Chelsea’s visit to the Etihad this coming Monday.

Mourinho commented on Manchester City and their manager, “They won one title, they won a couple of cups. Only in Europe they didn’t do well. Speaking objectively they did very bad in the Champions League in previous seasons, also in the Europa League they did bad.

“The first thing to be successful in Europe is to know the rules of the competition, that’s the first thing”, he added.

This comes a few moths after Pellegrini had got his calculations wrong in the game against Bayern Munich at Allianz arena last year and subsequently faces a tie against Barcelona in the second round of the UEFA champions League. Pellegrini thought that City bettered Bayern’s head to head goal difference and bought on Jack Rodwell in place of Sergio Aguero.

Despite his views, Mourinho denied that there was a feud between them, “I didn’t fall out [with Pellegrini]. Not me, maybe him, not me.”

He went on to add that City were a touch fortuitous in their fixtures against the top clubs in the Premier League, “They are lucky,” “The reality is they have many crucial decisions in their favour.

“Against Liverpool, the Sterling ‘goal’. The penalty on Suarez. Against Newcastle the goal that is a clear goal.

“Against Tottenham, Dawson’s goal, the penalty, the (Danny Rose) red card. They are having everything. I repeat, because I don’t want to be misinterpreted, (it is) just pure coincidence.

“The referees, they try to do their best and sometimes they make mistakes and normally during the season the mistakes are split between teams.

“In their (City’s) case, they have everything in their favour.”

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