Mourinho: Am I happier to beat Chelsea than any other team?

But now we have the Premier league to try to be in the top four, we have the Europa League to try to beat Rostov, and on Monday we can not go with a bad team.

“I think Manchester United, with City, have the best squad in the league”, he said, via The Guardian.

“They are top of the league, they have confidence, they have great players, but we will show our quality there and see what happens”. A fine Graeme Le Saux chip did spark Chelsea into life but a double from Gianluca Vialli was all they could muster and Manchester United won 5-3, although they would go on and lose a fifth round replay to Barnsley.

“We can not go there with a [weakened] team, we’ll try to manage it within our squad and get a good team to compete with them”. They’re also on a ten game unbeaten run, with their last defeat coming at Tottenham in January, but United can actually match that figure. “We are facing a good team, very strong”.

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“My target is to give everything and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed”.

Last month Conte said: “We have this situation because of last season, not because someone invented it. I think the pitch is more big, there is more space for us, so we know how to play there”.

“So the Europa League is more important than the FA Cup for us”.

United have been hard to beat this season (as is every Mourinho team), but despite this, Mourinho’s team have been grounded in sixth for the majority of the campaign, and on course for a tiresome finish.

“We want to keep two doors open”. He told the club’s official website, “We have to go to London”. Then we’ll see. Until now, we didn’t win anything.

With Arsenal licking the wounds from their 10-2 aggregate defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League, an nearly unthinkable Cup exit at home to Lincoln would crank up the pressure further on manager Arsene Wenger.

He added: “It’s not an easy moment for Wenger, but we are talking about a great manager”. He worked a lot. Manchester City, Arsenal, and Spurs have already punched their tickets to the semifinal; will the Blues join them for the first time since 2012-13?

Unlike in the league, where he has rarely featured, Terry has been a staple in the cup competitions for Conte this season, playing in five of the six games in both the FA Cup and EFL Cup.

Although the scoreline was discomforting for Mourinho, it became clear that his ire was less with the performance of his team, and more with Conte’s buoyant celebrations.