JOSE MOURINHO : TEN KEY MINUTESThe Blues provided the perfect response to lastweeks defeat at Aston Villa, blowing Arsenal away atStamford Bridge in emphatic fashion.Having raced into a 2-0 lead inside nine minutescourtesy of goals from Samuel Etoo and AndreSchurrle, the visitors were then reduced to 10 menwhen Kieran Gibbs was sent off for a deliberatehandball. Replays showed referee Andre Marriner haddismissed the wrong player as Eden Hazards strikewas in fact handled by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, butthe decision stood, and from the resulting penaltyHazard extended our lead.Oscar made it 4-0 shortly before the break, and afurther strike by the Brazilian, along with a firstChelsea goal for substitute Mohamed Salah,ensured we recorded our biggest ever victory overthe Gunners. The fact the game was Arsene Wengers1,000th in charge of Arsenal merely compounded thevisitors misery.Jose Mourinho, who celebrated his biggest win asChelsea manager, was delighted with theperformance of his players, and felt the game was allbut won inside the opening 10 minutes.We had 10 amazing minutes and with that you canwin the game and show everybody that today youwont give a chance to any opponent, he said. Iwasso happy with the approach, we came to kill and in10 minutes we destroyed them. After that it waseasy; penalty, red card, 3-0, but my analysis of thegame is about the 10 minutes. It was a very goodperformance.We knew they wanted the ball and they wanted tobuild from the back. We pressed them very highimmediately, recovered the ball and attacked thespace fast. The 10 minutes were so amazing that westill had space for Petr Cech to make an importantsave from the only shot Arsenal had.We are not a team that normally starts very well, itnormally takes time. Our second half is usually betterthan the first half but in the last two matches it had abig impact on the game.I wanted three points, a good performance and wegot that. On top of that we got the result withnumbers that are special for the fans. We work forthe fans and if we can give them what we did, itseven more beautiful.Mourinho provided his thoughts on the redcardObviously to play against 10 men is easier, Im notgoing to be a hypocrite to say its the same asplaying against 11 men. They took Podolski off, oneless attacking player. Obviously we were morecomfortable and relaxed but there was no doubt,after 10 minutes, with the way we started, it was ourgame.The sending off is big ammunition for people like mewho think one little screen is a big help for the fourthofficial against these kind of mistakes. The importantthing is that the penalty was a penalty and the redcard was a red card. It would be nice for the ref,because he doesnt want to make that mistake, ifthere was a screen which said Chamberlain, notGibbs. Its the kind of mistake no referee wants tomake.He also provided an update on the injurysustained by Etoo.With his experience he thinks its not big. Before thebig tear, he was able to say enough is enough, but ahamstring is a hamstring.The performances of both Schurrle and Salahpleased the managerI know what Schurrle can do, for good and bad.Thisfirst season is for him to develop, adapt to theleague, adapt to the way I want the team to play, butwe know the player he can be if he keeps his goodqualities and improves the qualities that nobody waspushing for him to develop before he came here.Today was a really good performance and he playedvery well in Istanbul and at Fulham in the secondhalf.For Salah its more difficult, hes younger andcoming from a different environment and culture. Heneeds even more time but we believe he will be animportant player for us next season. He played 25minutes today, 25 minutes against Newcastle and 45minutes against City, thats good for him.On what the result means in terms of the titleraceMan City have everything in their hands, Liverpoolhave everything in their hands. Nobody playsChampions League from the top four, they havejustthe Premier League matches to play and we have atleast two big Champions League matches to play inbetween.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:40:04 +0000
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