Jose’s ‘toxic’ Chelsea slammed, Bayern wallops 10-man Shakhtar
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BRITISH newspapers and pundits rounded on Chelsea and manager Jose Mourinho yesterday following their Champions League elimination, branding them “a team who will never really be loved.”
Chelsea fell to French champion Paris Saint-Germain on away goals following a stormy and ill-tempered 2-2 draw in the second leg of their last 16 tie at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday. The home side’s players came in for strong criticism after they surrounded referee Bjorn Kuipers in the aftermath of a first-half foul on Oscar by Zlatan Ibrahimovic that saw the PSG striker harshly shown a straight red card.
The Daily Mail labelled Chelsea “The Bully Boys,” using a photograph to flag up the fact that “NINE players” had encircled the Dutch official and describing their conduct as “deplorable.” Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Henry Winter said “there will be little sorrow for their (Chelsea’s) departure outside Stamford Bridge,” beneath a headline branding the evening a “night of ignominy.”
Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher laid the blame at Mourinho’s door, accusing the Portuguese of instilling a culture of gamesmanship at the club. “The worst bit of dirty tricks was from Chelsea, surrounding the referee. The reaction was disgraceful,” said the Sky Sports pundit. “Jose Mourinho could end up being the most successful manager ever with the trophies he goes on to win in his career, but I don’t think him and his teams will be ever be loved because of actions like that. Does Mourinho care? I don’t think he probably cares. I think it’s sad.”
His fellow pundit Graeme Souness added: “This PSG team is just full of technique, a really good footballing team, and they had to put up with stuff which I find really, really unappealing.”
Prior to the game, Mourinho had accused PSG of playing with unnecessary aggression in the first leg, which finished 1-1, and The Guardian felt the Portuguese’s “toxic tone” had influenced Kuipers. “Even against 10 men for so much of the game, they were second-best in just about every department,” said Oliver Kay in The Times.
The Daily Mirror branded Mourinho’s misfiring players ‘Euro Trash.’ “Chelsea got exactly what they deserved: nothing,” The Sun added.
Chelsea’s elimination leaves the English Premier League facing the embarrassing realization that it is not, as it likes to think, the best league in the world.
Bayern Munich qualified for the quarterfinals with a 7-0 rout of 10-man Shakhtar Donetsk.
Despite playing out a drab goalless draw in the first leg in Ukraine, Bayern made no such mistake against a Shakhtar side reduced to 10 men in just the third minute after Olexander Kucher brought down Mario Goetze.
Kucher’s dismissal beat the previous fastest Champions League red card of 5min 52sec for Werder Bremen’s Valerien Ismael against Inter Milan in September 2004.
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