17 Mar 2010 – 07:51:47

Former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho was ecstatic after seeing his Internazionale side win 1-0 at Stamford Bridge to send the Blues hurtling out of the Champions League.

A Samuel Eto’o strike clinched a 1-0 win on the night and a 3-1 aggregate success for Inter, with Mourinho able to celebrate a quarter-final spot at the expense of his former employers.

He said afterwards: “I’m very happy. Very, very happy because we won and because we were the best team.

“Sometimes in football you win because you’re lucky. Sometimes you win because you are the best team. Sometimes you win because you were the best team from the first to the last minute. That team was my team and my players.

“I’m not very happy because they lost. I’m very happy because my players are happy, my supporters are happy, my president is happy and because I worked so much for this game.

“As a professional, that’s the best feeling you can have. I’m not happy because my ex-players or Roman Abramovich lost, or that Chelsea supporters go home sad. I’m not happy about their unhappiness.

“I’m not saying Inter are better than them. I’m saying that, today, Inter were much better than Chelsea and that brought frustration to the Chelsea players.

“My people will always be my people, but today I was the enemy and the enemy won. That’s life.

“It’s a very important victory for me as a coach, but not the victory of my life. That will be in the future.”