Less than a fortnight on from securing an
impressive 1-0 victory at the Etihad Stadium in
Premier League competition, Mourinho took his
side back to the North West on Saturday.
There was to be no repeat of those heroics,
though, as Chelsea succumbed to a 2-0 defeat.
The Blues offered little as an attacking threat
throughout the 90 minutes and Mourinho
concedes that the better side on the day were
able to book their place in the last eight.
He said: "City played much better than us and
deserved to win.
"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."
City's second saw David Silva waved through
when the flag could have gone up to square for
Samir Nasri to tap home, but Mourinho admits
that even if the effort had been chalked off, the
course of the tie would not have been altered.
He added: "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 will now focus their attention on the
pursuit of Premier League and UEFA Champions
League honours, with Mourinho refusing to read
too much into a cup setback.
He 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.
"Today was also clear there was a different
freshness between the teams, one team played a
few days ago and another team played last week
and had one week without competitive football.
It was easy to see the difference."
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Jose Mourinho had no complaints about the outcome after seeing Chelsea dumped out of the FA Cup by Manchester City.
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