Mourinho: "This season, we can't win the title"
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After leading his Chelsea team to a crucial and dominant victory at the Etihad, Jose Mourinho fielding questions from reporters.

Mourinho was asked about the match first and 'The Special One' was very appreciative of his team's performance, noting the important of the victory:

"Against a fantastic team, to play the way we did is amazing. This is a very important step in preparing the team to be one of the favourites for next season. "

"We beat Man City twice but they are the best team we have played. Today we won because we were the best team, they had a couple of chances to score, but we had the better chances to win the game."

"City are the best team in the Premier League, we beat them twice."

The Portuguese manager was then asked about his pre-match antics and his teams performance against big sides and Mourinho responded in a witty manner, saying:

"I didn't speak to the players before the game today, it was Billy the masseur who gave the team talk. I spoke at midday." 

"I'm serious! He was screaming in Scottish."

"We love big games and the best thing for our evolution is to play matches under pressure."

Mourinho then responded to talks of individuals, specifically referee Mike Dean and Chelsea's playmaker, Eden Hazard: 

"Mike Dean had a fantastic game with one mistake, no red card to Nastasic, but it was still a great referee performance."

"Ronaldo and Messi are Ronaldo and Messi, but he's probably the best young player in the world. I keep saying Hazard has to keep improving & his feet on the ground."

The most interesting and note-worthy part of the post-match interview with Mourinho was his focus on the future and not the current season:

"We lost points this season & we're in evolution but this result helps us grow up. Tactically & mentally it was fantastic."

"We played with great spirit. Favourites for this season? Yes, we are there but we are not favourites."

Jose explained his reasoning behind putting the Premier League title beyond Chelsea with an analogy to horses:

 "The title race has 2 big horses & a little horse which needs milk and work and needs to learn to jump. Chelsea can win that race next season"

"I'm sorry, this season, I can't say that we can win the title"