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Mourinho picks up the egg pieces
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Jose Mourinho’s description of his Chelsea players as “beautiful, young eggs” came back to haunt him as English newspapers dredged up a wealth of egg-related puns to mock his team’s defeat to Basel in their Champions League group.
“Mourinho has egg on his face” and “Mourinho shell shocked” appeared in more than one paper, while yesterday’s The Sun went for “Rotten Eggs” as the media heaped blame on the Portuguese manager for Wednesday’s 1-2 shock loss.
It was Chelsea’s first home defeat in the Champions League group stages in 30 matches and followed a loss to Everton in the Premier League last Saturday.
Before the Group E tie, Mourinho, who returned to the London side in June six years after leaving following a fall-out with Russian billionaire owner Roman Abramovich, laughed as he told a news conference his players were “beautiful, young eggs” who needed nurturing.
Mourinho was not smiling, however, as the 2012 European champion was booed off the pitch at Stamford Bridge while Abramovich, according to the Daily Mirror, had “eyes as hard as stone”.
The Mirror lambasted Chelsea for a “lack of cohesion, drive, purpose and imagination”.
Mourinho’s side were missing a “meat-and-potatoes center-forward”, the Guardian said and “at times this season... have resembled a brilliantly-armored cavalier riding into battle waving a baguette”.
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