Mourinho reveals he risked Mikel Obi against Liverpool

CHELSEA Manager, Jose Mourinho has said their league game against Liverpool was arguably the most impressive of the season to date, as they came from behind to beat Liverpool 2-1 at Stamford Bridge, a win that keeps the Blues within two points of leaders Arsenal.

“It was a big win, big opponent, big match and big respect to every player in this country because I love it, you love it, people around the world love it and the accumulation of matches is amazing,’ said Mourinho.
“That’s why what happened to Ivanovic, Lampard, Allen and Sakho happened, because it’s really difficult, especially when it’s a big match and the players have to give what they have and what they don’t have.
“This was a big game; from the first to the last minute there was doubt about the result, everybody giving 100 per cent. There was some good quality football and big emotion.


“We deserved to win because they did nothing to score the first goal. After that our reaction in the first half was fantastic. In the second half we defended well, they hit the post with Sakho, we had some counter attack situations where we could have killed the game with Eto’o, Torres and Hazard, but we didn’t and it was hard until the last minute, but I think we deserved it.
“We knew before the game if we didn’t win the distance to the leader was big because Arsenal had just won. Everything accumulated; fatigue, Ramires not playing, Mikel with flu, plus the injuries we had in the first half. All of this together makes me very happy with the level of their game.
“The team did a very good job collectively, Liverpool are fantastic at building from the back, the way Brendan opens up the central defenders and puts Lucas in between them with the full backs in wide positions and the wingers inside, they are fantastic at that, but we did very well to press them high up.
“They weren’t comfortable, the goalkeeper was kicking a lot of high balls and the fluency of their game which allows the last ball to come into Suarez didn’t happen a lot. It was more about my team defending very well with 10 players than saying specifically this one or that one. Everybody played a good game.’