Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho returns to his roots Tuesday, when he leads Chelsea against his former club Porto, in the second round matches of the group stage of the Champions League football championship.
Mourinho has achieved tremendous success in the training of Porto between 2002 and 2004, which culminated with six titles, including the Champions League title in 2004, and will run Tuesday the face of a particular kind in front of his former team in his country.
Mourinho and lived that experience before during his first spell at Chelsea training, and will return Tuesday to "Dragao" stadium for the third time.
Chelsea lead Group G after he began his career in the European Championship by beating Maccabi Alshoeni 4 - zero, but it is still suffering from a disastrous start to the defense of their Premier League title.
Chelsea have won only two victories during the first seven games of the league and delayed in fifteenth place, eight points behind leaders Manchester United.
Mourinho criticized the performance of his players during the first half of the match that the team escaped the defeat against Newcastle Saturday and tied him 2-2 with two goals late.
Mourinho said after the match in remarks published location Chelsea website: "If we play at the level we showed in the second half, we can win every game, but if we have such as the level of the first half, we can lose every game."
He added: "I do not trust in the continuation of any of the extremes, I do not think we will continue to play the same level as the first half or the second half the same level."
Mourinho could not win in any of the two preceding his visits to the Stadium of Porto, in the first face Chelsea in front of Porto under Mourinho in 2004, Benni McCarthy had scored a late goal led by Porto to win 2-1 in the group stage of the European Championship.
Two years later, the two teams drew 1-1 in the first leg knockout round of the tournament and then beat Chelsea at home 2-1.
The last confrontation between the two teams in the group stage of the championship 2009 - 2010 season, and Chelsea Win ends 1 - zero in each of the two legs under the leadership of Carlo Ancelotti, but the title was the share of Mourinho in that season and crowned him with Inter Milan.
Now, Porto running game in high spirits in light of the positive results in the Portuguese league and Aguetsama lead with rivals Sporting Lisbon.
Porto and achieved a draw 2-2 in the last league match and fought last Friday in front of Morirensa.
Tuesday's game also puts Mourinho in the face of veteran goalkeeper Iker Casillas, who worked under his leadership for three years at Real Madrid, before they cause differences between them in the inherent Casillas seat bench.
Casillas joined Porto last summer to enhance the historical record in the Champions League where the game will be Tuesday despite his 152 in the tournament, surpassing the Xavi Hernandez.
And doubts about the participation in Porto Yassin Brahimi, where he was replaced at halftime Friday's game because of a knee injury.
According to reports in Portugal that Brahimi missed workouts Sunday, but the club revealed that he had conducted some light training in the gym (Jamenzaom).
And it can take advantage of Chelsea striker Diego Costa, who missed the squad at Newcastle match and suffered a three-match ban in the league because of violent behavior in the match against Arsenal earlier in the September / September current efforts.
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