Jose Mourinho has hailed the ‘beauty’ in his Chelsea side after they destroyed Schalke 5-0 in Tuesday night in the Champions League.
Goals from John Terry, Willian, Didier Drogba, Ramires and a Jan Kirchkoff own goal saw the Londoners ease past Roberto di Matteo’s side and progress to the knock-out stages of the tournament.
And, Portuguese boss Jose Mourinho believes his side’s performance was their most ‘complete’ this season.
“The players are very serious,” Mourinho told reporters. “Everything they do with big focus and ambition, but at the same time with this component, which is something new in Chelsea football – this happiness, this flair, this beauty.
“The way they are doing things, we are very happy. We are having good results and playing really, really well at this moment.
“I don’t remember Chelsea playing in this way away from home. Obviously, there have been great victories away from home with me, with Roberto, even with other managers. But this was very impressive. Very complete.
“I know, because you are going to say Schalke were not good, they made mistakes, but the reality is any team that played against us would feel it was very difficult. The players played a fantastic match.
“This was the whole 90 minutes. Sometimes when a team is winning 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, you make a mistake and allow the others to score. But no, we didn’t. The team were so solid. If anything, in the first half, we could have scored more goals.
“They must be very sad with this result, but my experience tells me that when we lose against a team who is much better than us, you have to accept it. They have to accept we were too strong for them.”