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Jose Mourinho has raised the stakes ahead of Wednesday night’s Champions League last-16 second-leg tie with Paris Saint-Germain by claiming that Chelsea have more competitive games in their training sessions than the French champions do in Ligue 1.
Mourinho’s team have not played since they defeated West Ham 1-0 last Wednesday, while PSG beat Lens 4-1 in the French league on Saturday - a game that the Chelsea manager said had a lower intensity than his squad’s training session on the same day.
It was a remark that formed part of an answer to the question of whether the Premier League could claim to be the strongest league in the world if Chelsea were the only English side who made it into the last eight of the Champions League.
“I think so,” Mourinho said. “Do you imagine for example, in the quarter-finals, looking to the fixtures, the English team in the Champions League competing with Bayern Munich that has an 11-point advantage? They can play with a second team [in the Bundesliga] without any kind of pressure.
“Even PSG, I saw their game on Saturday. I think our training session on Saturday was harder than their game on Saturday. My players on Sunday, they were resting from the hard training session on the Saturday. Free Soccer Picks. I think on Sunday their [PSG] players were not resting from their game against Lens. It’s more difficult for English clubs.
“Do you think it’s normal where Everton are [14th] in the Premier League? It’s not normal, but they play every Thursday in the Europa League and travel and come back and play again on Sundays. Free Sports Picks. This league is very difficult and the Champions League is a completely different situation.”
Jose Mourinho has raised the stakes ahead of Wednesday night’s Champions League last-16 second-leg tie with Paris Saint-Germain by claiming that Chelsea have more competitive games in their training sessions than the French champions do in Ligue 1.
Mourinho’s team have not played since they defeated West Ham 1-0 last Wednesday, while PSG beat Lens 4-1 in the French league on Saturday - a game that the Chelsea manager said had a lower intensity than his squad’s training session on the same day.
It was a remark that formed part of an answer to the question of whether the Premier League could claim to be the strongest league in the world if Chelsea were the only English side who made it into the last eight of the Champions League.
“I think so,” Mourinho said. “Do you imagine for example, in the quarter-finals, looking to the fixtures, the English team in the Champions League competing with Bayern Munich that has an 11-point advantage? They can play with a second team [in the Bundesliga] without any kind of pressure.
“Even PSG, I saw their game on Saturday. I think our training session on Saturday was harder than their game on Saturday. My players on Sunday, they were resting from the hard training session on the Saturday. Free Soccer Picks. I think on Sunday their [PSG] players were not resting from their game against Lens. It’s more difficult for English clubs.
“Do you think it’s normal where Everton are [14th] in the Premier League? It’s not normal, but they play every Thursday in the Europa League and travel and come back and play again on Sundays. Free Sports Picks. This league is very difficult and the Champions League is a completely different situation.”
