«IF THEY RESPECT ME AS MUCH AS I RESPECT THEM ...» - MOURINHO
With three days to go before Anfield, Jose Mourinho anticipated the encounter with Liverpool, the biggest duel of the 8th Premier League and English football.
"I like playing against the best teams, the best clubs, the best stadiums - in the stadiums with history. I had good and bad times at Anfield and they were already happy and unhappy against my teams. If they respect me as much as I respect them, then let's have another one of those games, "the Portuguese coach told Sky Sports.
Despite all the rivalry between the two clubs, Mourinho recalled that in this duel will be "only three points" in play, "not four." "Maybe at a different time of the year it could be worth more than that, but that's not the case," he said.
Mourinho also dismissed the theory that this is a decisive test to classify Manchester United as a real title contender:
"This is the talk of the press, and the commentators. They say we have something to prove, that Lukaku has to score, that we have to win ... we do not have to prove anything to anyone. We have our goals for this time and we know what we have to do. It is not a game, a result or a display that will change whatever it is.
"I like playing against the best teams, the best clubs, the best stadiums - in the stadiums with history. I had good and bad times at Anfield and they were already happy and unhappy against my teams. If they respect me as much as I respect them, then let's have another one of those games, "the Portuguese coach told Sky Sports.
Despite all the rivalry between the two clubs, Mourinho recalled that in this duel will be "only three points" in play, "not four." "Maybe at a different time of the year it could be worth more than that, but that's not the case," he said.
Mourinho also dismissed the theory that this is a decisive test to classify Manchester United as a real title contender:
"This is the talk of the press, and the commentators. They say we have something to prove, that Lukaku has to score, that we have to win ... we do not have to prove anything to anyone. We have our goals for this time and we know what we have to do. It is not a game, a result or a display that will change whatever it is.
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