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By the return of
Jose Mourinho to Stamford Bridge for the first time since he left
Chelsea two seasons ago will be the major attraction tonight in the
final reverse second round knockout matches of the UEFA Champions
League.

At the Heineken
Champions Planet IV, visitors are expected to have a fun-filled time
when English Premiership side Chelsea attempts to emulate fellow
domestic rival Manchester United and Arsenal to reach the quarter final
stage of the competition at the expense of Italian champions, Inter
Milan.

Mourinho is confident Inter have the winning mentality to get past Chelsea .

There with his heart

“The good thing is
that I don’t have far to walk,” he told UEFA.com as he looked forward
to the encounter. “From the dressing room to the bench is five metres –
I don’t have to cross the stadium, I don’t have to feel the emotions
and reactions from the crowd. I will just sit there and play my game.

“The players play
on the pitch, I play outside,” he continued. “They are much more
important than me, because on the pitch you win matches, not on the
bench. But I will be there with my heart fully on either side. That’s
what a professional does. I don’t hide that Chelsea are a very
important part of my life.”

Mourinho’s record on the Stamford Bridge is intimidating; he went 60 league games and won back-to-back Premier League titles.

He won the Italian league the first season and the European Champions League with Porto in 2004.

“If the coach does
well and the club supports [him], and this is the case; we always
modify to improve,” the 47-year-old explained. “We bought a few
players, the type of player we did not have last year – a purely
creative attacking midfielder in Wesley Snijder. We have more solutions
in attack with [Diego] Milito, (Samuel) Eto’o and (Goran) Pandev.

“Of course we lost
Zlatan Ibrahimović, but with these three players we have more solutions
and more options. Also, Lucio is the type of central defender we didn’t
have – tall, strong in the air. I think we are more adapted to the
needs of the modern game.”

Mental toughness

Apart from
recruitment, Mourinho also credits his players with they are also
mentally stronger. He buttressed the players’ mental toughness with the
4-3 win against AC Siena in which Walter Samuel scored a stoppage time
goal, playing as a centre-forward. “The Siena match is a good example
of what we are,” Mourinho told UEFA.Com . “We were losing and scored
the equaliser for 3-3 in the 91st minute. A normal team, normal players
and coaches, would have said ‘Okay, we did it, we have a point, we did
not lose, it’s done.’ But I was shouting to the players ‘Three minutes
to go, three more minutes.’ You can win or you can lose. We won.

“Samuel was asking
me, ‘Do I go back?’ My reply was, ‘No, don’t go back – stay up for
three more minutes and see what happens.’ It was my decision, but a
coach can only be arrogant, can only have this winning mentality, if he
knows the players’ response is good.”

Planet House

The refurbished
Planet House still maintains its unique opulent nature and provides a
relaxing ambience for Heineken consumers and fans to enjoy the games
with captains of industry, celebrities and prominent former Super
Eagles stars.

This evening, when
the quest for which of the teams will pick the remaining four quarter
final ticket gets under way, coach Carlos Anceloti has a major task
most especially in Mourinho’s mind game to cancel the 1-2 loss at San
Siro Stadium during the first leg.

In the other match
of the day, Spanish top side Sevilla will host CSKA Moscow in the
return leg after a useful 1-1 score line in the Russian capital two
weeks ago.

Aside the football matches, the marketing director of Nigerian
Breweries Plc, Jacco Van der Linden, had disclosed during the formal
opening of the new look Planet House that visitors would be engaged in
fun and exciting activities like table soccer, swimming, golf and chess
while all the games are aired on all the screens available in the HCP.