Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has told his players to forget about being knocked out of the FA Cup by Brighton and to concentrate on getting to the League Cup final by beating Liverpool on Tuesday night.
The Blues lost 4-2 to lowly Bradford on Saturday with Mourinho now telling players to brush off the loss and beat The Reds at Stamford Bridge after a first leg 1-1 draw at Anfield.
“The next game is the most important one,” Mourinho told the Chelsea website.
“We need to forget this one and start the next game in a different competition, and I know we are one victory away from playing a final.
“It’s the good thing about playing consecutive matches without many days in between. It’s the good thing that, when you lose, you have to focus immediately on the next game.
“You don’t have a lot of time to be moaning or analysing what happened in the bad one. Let’s move and let’s think about the next one.
“At the end of May we don’t go to Wembley to play the FA Cup final, that’s for sure. The FA Cup is finished for us. We don’t go there even to play the FA Cup semi-final. It’s over for us.
“To go there – and I think that should mean a lot to everyone – the last chance we have is this one, to play there in the Capital One Cup final.”
