Tuesday 27 January 2015 09:06, UK
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is urging his players to forget their FA Cup exit to Bradford and focus on their Capital One semi-final second leg with Liverpool on Tuesday evening.
The Blues were shocked 4-2 by the League One side at Stamford Bridge on Saturday but Mourinho, who branded that performance a 'disgrace,' is demanding his players brush it off and turn their 1-1 first-leg draw at Anfield into an aggregate win.
"The next game is the most important one," Mourinho told the Chelsea website.
"We need to forget this one and start the next game in a different competition, and I know we are one victory away from playing a final.
At the end of May, beginning of June, we don't go to Wembley to play the FA Cup final, that's for sure. The FA Cup is finished for us. We don't go there even to play the FA Cup semi-final. It's over for us.
"It's the good thing about playing consecutive matches without many days in between. It's the good thing that, when you lose, you have to focus immediately on the next game.
"You don't have a lot of time to be moaning or analysing what happened in the bad one. Let's move and let's think about the next one.
"At the end of May we don't go to Wembley to play the FA Cup final, that's for sure. The FA Cup is finished for us. We don't go there even to play the FA Cup semi-final. It's over for us.
"To go there - and I think that should mean a lot to everyone - the last chance we have is this one, to play there in the Capital One Cup final."
