Former Chelsea boss Mourinho still hasn’t got over Luis Garcia’s debatable winner for Liverpool in 2005.
Jose Mourinho claims he is not lucky in semi-finals.
Anyone who watched his Inter side scrape through against Barcelona in 2010 will be sure to disagree.
Tonight is sure to be an exciting affair as his Real Madrid side take on Bayern Munich, attempting to overturn a first leg deficit.
He made the comments in his pre-match press conference, and to be fair, he has lost his fair share of semi-finals in the Champions League, twice defeated by Liverpool.
The Luis Garcia goal was the most unfortunate of the lot, dubbed a ghost goal because of the uncertainty over whether or not it crossed the line.
The FA Cup semi-final between Chelsea and Spurs, where Chelsea were awarded a fortunate ‘ghost goal’ of their own shows that what goes around comes around, even though this will be scant consolation for Mourinho.
“Overall, I have not been lucky in semi-finals of the Champions League, I lost one with Chelsea due to a goal that wasn’t a goal; the ball didn’t cross the line. Another season we lost on penalties and when you lose a semi-final on penalties, it is due to bad luck.”
Our message to Mourinho is, you are more than lucky- remember when Barcelona had to travel by coach from Spain to Milan because of the Ashcloud which prevented them from flying, leaving them drained by the journey and losing 3-1.
Remember for Porto in the second round against Manchester United, Paul Scholes having a perfectly good goal disallowed for offside?
The fates were with Liverpool in 2005- there was nothing he could have done about it. Even Milan with a 3-0 head start couldn’t stop Benitez’s heroes.
Time to get over it Jose- go and create some new history- with the talent in Real Madrid’s side, you shouldn’t need luck to progress tonight.
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