Jose Mourinho: The thing that I’m most happy with after beating Porto

The referee relied on his assistant behind the goal to confirm the ball had crossed the line in the first sign for weeks that Chelsea’s fortunes are changing.

Chelsea’s only triumph in the Champions League, in 2012, came under former manager Roberto di Matteo, when the London side were having a poor domestic season.

“That is not so easy when the pressure is so high and the results are bad in this hard period”. They were courageous to accept that challenge.

“PSG are clearly a contender to win the Champions League and we’ll do everything to avoid them, but it’s the draw that will decide”. We knew we could conceded a goal and still qualify. In the Premier League every detail goes against us and it was a little attack to the players’ confidence. We could have had different results against Stoke, Tottenham, Bournemouth.

“The piece of luck we had with the first goal tonight we’ve never had in the Premier League”.

“We didn’t do well and we won’t continue in the most important competition, but the Europa League is another challenge”.

After the second leg, PSG captain Thiago Silva – who scored the decisive away goal at Stamford Bridge – accused Mourinho of “lacking respect” for his side. “We are arriving at so many situations where we just need a tap in, and we are not doing that”. You could immediately feel the lack of confidence because the first thing he does is not to look at the goal.

Manager Jose Mourinho has brushed off speculation that he could be sacked if his team fail to progress and Courtois said everyone at the club needed to take collective responsibility for their poor performances. So let’s hope we don’t have Blues supporters doing horribly racist things and singing horribly racist songs at a Paris metro stop again like we did last season.

Defeat to Porto would have seen Chelsea drop into the Europa League and might have cost Mourinho his job, but the Blues, depsite some erratic finishing, strolled to a comfortable win.