PORTUGAL: SOCCER / FOOTBALL - Press conferences by Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho and Porto's coach Jesualdo Ferreira after their 1-1 draw from their first knockout round, first leg Champions League tie

Manager Jose Mourinho lamented Chelsea's run of injurfies after he lost England captain John Terry to a twisted ankle and Dutch winger Arjen Robben to a muscle strain against Porto on Wednesday. Chelsea came away with a 1-1 draw from the first knockout round, first leg Champions League tie but are depleted going into Sunday's English League Cup final against Arsenal. Terry, who has suspected ligament damage, will miss the Millennium Stadium showdown with their London rivals, Sky Sports News reported. Chelsea are particularly short in central defence after losing Dutch international Khalid Boulahrouz with a dislocated shoulder last Saturday. "I think it's a good result, the tie will be resolved in London at Stamford Bridge," Mourinho, who coached Porto to Champions League glory in 2004, said at the post match press conference. "I was waiting for Chelsea to play a better game here, and instead of playing a controlled game, play a more emotional game and a more attacking one. But with the circumstances we did well and we stopped the game in the correct way. "I made the correct options and the players the correct decisions on the pitch." Terry returned to action only three weeks ago after eight weeks out with a back injury and Boulahrouz had also missed most games since the new year with a knee problem. Those injuries caused friction in the Chelsea camp with Mourinho wanting to sign a defender and the Chelsea board reluctant to spend. Another cause of earlier friction, the form of 30 million pounds ($58.51 million) signing Andriy Shevchenko, appears to have subsided after the Ukraine striker scored Chelsea's equaliser to cancel out an opener from Raul Meireles. Porto's Jesualdo Ferreira, the fifth coach at the Dragon Stadium since Mourinho left for London in 2004, said he was pleased with his teams performance. "Porto were clearly better in the first half than Chelsea. We started very well, scored a goal and we were able to control the attacking movements of our opponents far away from our goal area," he said. Mourinho has Sunday's final in Cardiff and a Premier League match at Portsmouth to negotiate before meeting his former club for the return leg at Stamford Bridge on March 6.

ITN Source | February 23, 2007

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