Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has once again played down his side’s Premier League title chances, claiming the “table is fake” after his side recovered from defeats at Crystal Palace and Paris St Germain with a 3-0 win over Stoke on Saturday.
The Blues’s victory coupled with Liverpool’s 2-1 win at Upton Park to West Ham on Sunday, seeing the London Club second placed in the table, two points off the pace.
Mourinho, who is now unbeaten in 77 home Premier League matches, wrote off Chelsea’s title bid after their loss to Crystal Palace last week, and he has once again deplored the way things are shaking up at the top end of the table.
The Portuguese said in a press conference which included the watching Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore: “The situation is the same. The table is again fake. The table is again with lots of matches in hand.
“You look to the top part of the table and, some teams, they have more matches than others. You look to the relegation area and it’s exactly the same.
“In the top of the league we cannot say we need X points to be champions.
“If you look at the relegation area, Fulham or Cardiff or Norwich, they cannot say ‘we need this number of points to survive’, because they don’t know, because Sunderland have matches in hand.
“This, in the best league in the world, I don’t think is the best image we are giving and it’s not the best situation.
“To play matches in hand in the last week of the season, I don’t think is adapted to this top football country.”
Source: Sokkaa