Jose Mourinho’s Reactions After Chelsea’s 2-0 Win Over Porto

Bournemouth will be hoping to build on their win at Chelsea by turning up the heat on another manager, Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal who saw his side eliminated from the Champions League on Tuesday with defeat at VfL Wolfsburg.

The reigning Premier League champions have struggled domestically, losing eight of their 15 top-flight matches this season to leave them in 14th position.

However, Mourinho has delivered three Premier League titles during his two spells at Stamford Bridge, and the crowd rose to salute him during Wednesday’s vital 2-0 Champions League win over Porto.

“I think every second (place) team wants to play us”, Mourinho said.

On Wednesday night Mourinho took on Casillas, their first meeting since they worked together at Real Madrid.

Midfielder Nemanja Matic said on uefa.com: “Chelsea won it before and we will try to do it again”.

“When we were candidates, we lost two semi-finals with Real Madrid, we lost two semi-finals with Chelsea, so let’s see”.

“While mathematically it’s still possible, we will fight for every game and see if it’s possible to finish in the top four”, he added.

Chelsea were set on their way by an own-goal when Diego Costa’s saved effort deflected in off Ivan Marcano before Willian put the game to bed early in the second half.

Mourinho said: “If it was his decision to buy Frank Lampard, to buy Eidur Gudjohnsen, to buy Claude Makelele, then these were great decisions”.

Chelsea striker Diego Costa has apologised for the bib-throwing incident that called into question his relationship with Jose Mourinho, but says he avoided punishment because “the dressing room loves me”. “His lack of confidence?”.

I just remember the first goal here against Kiev was a defender who scored an own-goal, today it was a defender who scored an own-goal. “His lack of confidence was clear but his attitude was very good and his movement was much better”.

“I think we are going in a good direction in terms of the performance of individuals and team consistency-but obviously we need results”.

Mourinho was glowing in praise for Ranieri and Leicester, who spent the entirety of last season fighting relegation. We knew it was a hard match.

He has come to manage us and the first thing he said was he didn’t want to change too much and keep it how it is, mostly.

“Life is full of surprises – I always wish Atletico the best and I always follow them, support them from afar”.