Chelsea will kill Galatasaray 10-0, jokes Mourinho

LONDON: After waiting 93 minutes for a breakthrough at home to Everton, Jose Mourinho joked about killing the Champions League tie against Galatasaray in Wednesday’s first leg. “Ideally I would prefer to go there and win 10-zero,” the Chelsea manager said.

There are several reasons why that might not happen, beginning with the fact that Chelsea have begun to find goals hard to come by. “Obviously we have some limitations,” Mourinho accepted, after conceding a scoreless draw would have been a fair result and that Everton could consider themselves slightly unlucky to leave emptyhanded.

With Demba Ba relegated to the periphery and Samuel Eto’o and Fernando Torres taking it in turn to fire blanks in front of goal, the return of Champions League football and a reunion with Didier Drogba threatens to underline the point that Chelsea have never satisfactorily replaced the Ivorian striker Mourinho recruited from Marseille when he first arrived in England.

Drogba is 36 next month and is not quite as prolific as he once was, although he is still capable of leading the line and providing an attacking outlet in a more authoritative manner than any of his successors have managed.

DROGBA STILL A THREAT “He’s still good, still a threat,” Mourinho said. “It will be a strange feeling playing against him because we know him so well but as a manager I have come up against him before. We played Chelsea when I was at Internazionale and he was at Galatasaray when Real Madrid played them last season.

We [Real Madrid] lost in Istanbul. They had us in trouble but Galatasaray is always a difficult place to go to; the crowd is difficult too. Before the game and after the game it will be big respect for Didier, we will always be big friends because he