Chelsea badly bruised. Especially Mourinho.

Wish I had Moyes filter on twitter today.

How many times can tweeters re-post exactly the same news?

The old telegram system was better…

MOYES SACKED. STOP.

What more is there to the story than that !! Move along, nothing more to see here now. (And this column covered it yesterday ;).

So, the Chosen One is now the Chosen Gone and tonight we find out how special the Special One is. Keeping up? Good.

Mourinho’s ego is badly bruised. Their defeat against Sunderland at the weekend was one hell of a bodyblow and for all the usual ‘blaming the ref’ nonsense from Mourinho Sunderland fought harder and wanted it more. Mourinho failed to blame his players but from my eyes it was an absolute howler from Mark Schwarzer that let in the first Sunderland goal.

Tonight, Mourinho has to pick up his deflated side for a Champions League semi-final first leg (live ITV 7.45pm) trip to Atletico Madrid.

HEAD TO HEAD RECORD
(Max last 10 only)
Aug 2012 European Super Cup Chelsea 1-4 Atl Madrid
Nov 2009 C.League Atl Madrid 2-2 Chelsea
Oct 2009 C.League Chelsea 4-0 Atl Madrid

Atletico Madrid are a side in form. They knocked out Barcelona in the quarter finals and remain on course for a La Liga / Champions League double.

Chelsea expect to have Cech back in goal but are without striker Samuel Eto’o through a knee injury.

This could give a chance up front to Fernando Torres, a former striker with Atletico who left to join Chelsea via Liverpool.

Chelsea will do well to get anything from this to take back to Stamford Bridge especially against an Atletico side who are watertight in defence.

I’m expecting Atletico to come away with a first leg advantage. It’s just a question of how big. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see a busy night on the bookings front.

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