Champions League Matchday 4 Awards: Chelsea Ease Pressure, Roma Edge Thriller
The club and a host of his players have denied the rumours and backed the coach, however, while fans showed their support during Wednesday night’s Champions League clash with Kyiv.
Chelsea has been on a poor form lately encountering losses in recent times this season making their manager come under fire from all quarters from fans, stakeholders and the media.
Chelsea showed character tonight to dig out a win over Dynamo Kyiv and manager Jose Mourinho was clearly touched by the support he received from the home crowd throughout the night when speaking after the game.
“This is my moment”.
“It is an fantastic feeling for the club to know that the fans are there in good moment and the bad moments. They read blogs, and it’s quite unbelievable what they tried to say”.
“I don’t think the criticism has much effect on the players because the manager tells us what to do and everyone believes in the manager and we are doing what he tells us”.
But Willian has been one light in the gloom surrounding Stamford Bridge and his performance on Wednesday was one to savour.
“At FC Porto he won the Europa League, the league, the Champions League”.
“It didn’t matter how we were going to it, we needed to win today. And the fans showed their passion for the club”. Or they recognise that I am a good professional, I give everything to the club, I brought great moments for the club and great memories.
“I don’t have another way to thank them than by giving everything I have, which I have always, which I will do always. The players deserve to get compensation for their hard work”, Mourinho said.
He explained that the Chelsea team now look panicked when they go a goal down because their confidence is low and it will only come back once they put together a run of positive results on the bounce.
“I think, from a mental point of view, it was important to provide a reaction to a negative moment”.
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