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Chelsea Are The Best Team In The World - Inter Coach Jose Mourinho
Mourinho has his ideas on how to tackle Chelsea...
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Feb 10, 2010 1:50:00 PM
By Salvatore Landolina
Jose Mourinho has said Chelsea are one of the best team's in the world, but that will matter little when Inter clash with his former team.
A Champions League double header in the last 16 will see Mourinho rub shoulders with the club he left in 2007. He has been watching them in preparation for the games on February 24 and March 16.
Despite four managerial changes since he was there, little has changed.
"The last time I was there I was watching all the details with attention," he told UEFA.com.
"Even the warm-up is the warm-up they did in our time. The way they defend set pieces is exactly the same.
"The position they have on set pieces is exactly the same. Sometimes they play a 4-4-2 diamond, sometimes they play 4-3-3, which are exactly the systems we worked when there."
Mourinho said Ancelotti has done well not to tinker with the team following his arrival there from Milan last summer.
"I think it's a quality of a good coach – and Ancelotti is a good coach – to understand how the players feel most comfortable," he added.
"And instead of making crazy changes, just fine tune, which is normal to keep a winning structure. I think Ancelotti's a very good coach and the team feels comfortable this way. And the team really is top – one of the best teams in the world."
Chelsea are well known to Mourinho and the cards have been laid bare.
"When I look at that team only Branislav Ivanovic and Nicolas Anelka are not players from my time. All the other boys: Petr Cech, Carvalho, Terry, Ashley Cole, Essien, Mikel, Drogba, Malouda, Joe Cole, Kalou; all of them are boys from my time," he added.
"So it's a team without secrets for me. But at the same time I think I'm a coach without secrets for them. It will be easy for me, but I think also easy for them.
"I know them, but they know me. I know the way they play, the way they think, but at the same time they know the way I coach, the way I prepare my teams."
A Champions League double header in the last 16 will see Mourinho rub shoulders with the club he left in 2007. He has been watching them in preparation for the games on February 24 and March 16.
Despite four managerial changes since he was there, little has changed.
"The last time I was there I was watching all the details with attention," he told UEFA.com.
"Even the warm-up is the warm-up they did in our time. The way they defend set pieces is exactly the same.
"The position they have on set pieces is exactly the same. Sometimes they play a 4-4-2 diamond, sometimes they play 4-3-3, which are exactly the systems we worked when there."
Mourinho said Ancelotti has done well not to tinker with the team following his arrival there from Milan last summer.
"I think it's a quality of a good coach – and Ancelotti is a good coach – to understand how the players feel most comfortable," he added.
"And instead of making crazy changes, just fine tune, which is normal to keep a winning structure. I think Ancelotti's a very good coach and the team feels comfortable this way. And the team really is top – one of the best teams in the world."
Chelsea are well known to Mourinho and the cards have been laid bare.
"When I look at that team only Branislav Ivanovic and Nicolas Anelka are not players from my time. All the other boys: Petr Cech, Carvalho, Terry, Ashley Cole, Essien, Mikel, Drogba, Malouda, Joe Cole, Kalou; all of them are boys from my time," he added.
"So it's a team without secrets for me. But at the same time I think I'm a coach without secrets for them. It will be easy for me, but I think also easy for them.
"I know them, but they know me. I know the way they play, the way they think, but at the same time they know the way I coach, the way I prepare my teams."
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