Jose Mourinho: City played much better than us and deserved to win

Jose Mourinho

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has admitted that the better team won when Manchester City faced Chelsea in the 5th round of the FA Cup yesterday.

Mourinho said, “Football is in peace when the best team wins. Two weeks ago the best team won and today the best team won.

“Give credit to my players because today proved that to win twice against City and to win here is very difficult to do. Credit for what my team did two weeks ago. Today the situation was simple. It’s simple to analyse. They were the best team and they won,” he added.

There was some controversy with the second goal as David Silva was offside, however, Mourinho felt that even without the 2nd goal City would have clinched the tie, “Was the referee team very poor in the second half? Yes. But even with a perfect referee team would Chelsea win the game? No.

“The second goal was offside, but they would have won 1-0 because we were never close to scoring, or being dominant, or scaring City in the game.”

Chelsea now have to compete for honours in 2 competitions, Premier League and the Uefa Champions League, as they were knocked out of the Capital One Cup by Sunderland and now in the FA Cup by Manchester City. The Portuguese said, “We go game by game and we are what we are.

“We always try to win the next game, it doesn’t matter the competition, so I don’t think one or two more games in the FA Cup would change anything for us or anything for them with the powerful squad they have.”