Jose Mourinho won another Premier League title with what many call defensive and boring football. With three games left in the season, a win against Crystal Palace was what was needed to clinch Chelsea's fifth Premier League title. There Special One may now be given the chance to stay with The Blues until 2019.
The manager returned to Chelsea in 2013 for his second spell with the team. He claimed it was a risk to come back to a place he had already been successful. After failing to crown Chelsea last season, he was determined to bring back the team that belongs to Mr. Roman Abramovich a big reason to smile.
"We know what we needed to do for this. Because when the situation was getting harder and warmer, March, April, was exactly when we lost players," Mourinho said. "With so many difficulties to win point after point and be champions with three matches to go is a great achievement for the boys."
Chelsea was undefeated since their hard loss to Tottenham at the beginning of the year. Ever since then, Mourinho's team got either a draw or a win in all of their games. Now, they are 13 points ahead of Manchester City, the previous EPL champions.
"At halftime (during the Crystal Palace game) I told them, the next time you come into this dressing room you have to be England's champion," the Special One said 45 minutes ahead of clinching his third title with Chelsea.
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Mourinho recognized Crystal Palace did not make it easy on them. The visiting team had nothing to lose but played like they needed at least one point to earn a spot in European competition. For the Portuguese manager knows the title was earned in every single game this season.
"To go through all this with so many problems it was fantastic. The team became pragmatic, the team became cold, the team became if I'm not scoring lots of goals I'm also not conceding many goals."
Now Mou and his players can relax as the end of the season approaches. He has already stated that he will start rotating players in the final stretch. Captain John Terry and Ivanovic have asked Mou for a chance to continue playing every game from start to finish as they have done so far.
"The last seasons for him before I arrived, he (Terry) wasn't in trouble, it didn't look like he
The manager had previously claimed that he would stay with the team until Mr. Abramovich told him to leave. Mou's current contract links him with the team until 2017, but the Russian businessman may want him for a little bit longer.
"I belong to Chelsea and Chelsea belong to me. I gave a lot to Chelsea in the past but they also gave a lot to me," Mou claimed after winning his eight title as a manager, but he sees it impossible to reach the heights of Sir Alex Ferguson.
