The specter of failure haunts Mourinho before facing PSG

The specter of failure haunts Mourinho

Heavy defeat .. absences wholesale .. dream adult .. specter of failure, are all factors and challenges haunt all of Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho to Chelsea, and his counterpart Laurent Blanc coach of Paris Saint-Germain before their bout tonight at the "Stamford Bridge" stronghold of the team Chelsea in the second leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League. 

Mourinho is trying to escape from the specter of failure and bid farewell to the European Championship after falling third in the first leg in Paris, and suffers from some absences such as Brazilian Ramires to stop, as well as midfielder Nemanja Matic, and striker young Egyptian Mohamed Salah to the inadmissibility of participation Europe. 

The Portuguese coach was not enjoying brilliantly Salah in the match Stoke City last won by the "blues" 3/0 in the league, where Pat's Egyptian phenomenon of the week in the Premier League, after scoring a goal and making two, and would deprive also hardness Matic in the middle of the pitch. 

Mourinho took place in numerous errors in the first leg in front of the team Parisian, most notably the non-payment with a bayonet explicit, and payment midfielder German Andre Horlh in this position despite the presence of Fernando Torres on the bench, making the English team toothless and a real danger on goal, came his only goal Hazzard, who scored from the penalty spot. 

However, it should "Sbichiyal and that" payment strike with all his strength to compensate for the defeat by two goals, so it is obliged to pay samuel Eto'o despite failing to recover fully from a hamstring injury kept him out of the team in the last three games. 

Artistic Director of the Blues fought match Stoke City in the same squad which fought out the first encounter with the Parisian team, with the exception of the involvement of Frank Lampard and Torres from the start, in the hope of equipping the position tonight. 

Laurent Blanc warmed up in a different way to face the second with Chelsea, where rested eight players in the league match Reims, and won by 3/0, did not continue in the starting line-up, only goalkeeper Salvatore Serigio, and Thiago Silva, and Edinson Cavani. 

Blanc has a big dream team, led by the French capital for the semi-finals for the first time in its history, but it will suffer from some of the obstacles, most notably the absence of Zlatan Ibrahimovic star first team due to injury which will keep him out of action for months, which would make Cavani alone in the attack. 

It is expected to seek and artistic director of Paris Saint-Germain to intensify presence in the middle of the pitch, to minimize the seriousness of Chelsea, and will depend on this task on Thiago Motta and Marco Verati, and take advantage of the physical abilities of the Brazilian Lucas Moura in the performance of the duties of defensive beside Antlaqath attack in support of Cavani and Lavezzi star leg . 

And there will be a variety Champions France drastic changes in the back line, which will remain Sirigu goalkeeper, in front of Thiago Silva and Alex, and Maxwell, while there is a trade-off between Van der Phil and Christoph Gallet, where the latter was a weak point clear in the first leg, and the task will be harder " Stamford Bridge "Breakthroughs in front of young people and Willian and Hazard and Oscar.