Wednesday, 9th April, 2014
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has proudly proclaimed that the Blues are ready to face any team in the semi-finals of the Champions League and thinks there are no easy opponents at this stage of the competition.
Chelsea overturned a 3-1 first leg deficit and beat Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 at Stamford Bridge last night in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie. Chelsea went through to the semi-finals on away goals.
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Mourinho has no particular team in mind that he wants to face in the semi-finals and thinks that all the teams will be hard to beat.
“Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico [Madrid], Bayern [Munich], Manchester [United] – it doesn't matter”, the Portuguese was quoted as saying by ITV.
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"We are in the semi-finals and if the quarter-finals had eight fantastic teams, imagine the four that are going to reach the semi-finals. Anything can happen.”
The 51-year-old believes that the semi-final tie will be a tough set of fixtures, but has enough confidence that the Blues will pose a threat to any team in Europe.
"A big opponent is waiting for us in the semi-final, but I think it doesn't matter who.
"They know that we are a team with a special spirit, even if we are not in the maximum of our potential.”
Chelsea won their first Champions League crown in the 2011/12 season. They beat Bayern Munich 4-3 in penalties at the Allianz Arena. The Bavarians thought that they clinched the match when Thomas Muller opened the scoring in the 83rd minute, but Chelsea equalised when Didier Drogba scored from a header in the 88th minute. The match went to extra-time and finally penalties.
Juan Mata missed the first spot-kick but Chelsea converted the next four. Ivica Olic and Bastian Schweinsteiger missed the last two spot kicks for the Germans to hand the Champions League to Chelsea.
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