Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has no complaints after seeing his side knocked out of the FA Cup by Manchester City in a 2-0 defeat at the Etihad Stadium despite the fact Chelsea had beaten them 0-1 less than two weeks earlier.
After the match during his post-game interview Mourinho said: “City played much better than us and deserved to win.
“Football is in peace when the best team wins. Two weeks ago the best team won and today the best team won.
“Give credit to my players because today proved that to win twice against City and to win here is very difficult to do. Credit for what my team did two weeks ago. Today the situation was simple. It’s simple to analyse. They were the best team and they won.”
Manchester City’s second goal raised questions as to whether or not David Silva was offside with Chelsea defender David Luiz raising his hand to the linesman, yet despite the wrong call Mourinho feels it would not have altered the match adding: “Was the referee team very poor in the second half? Yes. But even with a perfect referee team would Chelsea win the game? No.
“The second goal was offside, but they would have won 1-0 because we were never close to scoring, or being dominant, or scaring City in the game.”
Chelsea are now free to focus on the Champions League and the run in for the Premiership title with Mourinho saying: “We go game by game and we are what we are.
“We always try to win the next game, it doesn’t matter the competition, so I don’t think one or two more games in the FA Cup would change anything for us or anything for them with the powerful squad they have.
“Today was also clear there was a different freshness between the teams, one team played a few days ago and another team played last week and had one week without competitive football. It was easy to see the difference.”
