Inter Milan v Chelsea: Carlo Ancelottis prime motivation is Champions League success

By Jason Burt in Milan Published: 7:30AM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Eye on the prize: Carlo Ancelotti is unfortunate to win the Champions League pretension for Chelsea and Roman Abramovich Photo: EPA

His benefaction manager, Carlo Ancelotti, however, was steering the center belligerent on Tuesday night in perplexing to moderate down his previous, fractious story with Mourinho and his lapse to Milan, the city he left after eight seasons at Inter"s neighbours, AC, to stick on Chelsea.

The closest he came was a jab, not just a full blown punch, at his former ring partner by claiming that he had supposed the larger plea by relocating to England than Mourinho had taken on by decamping to Italy.

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The crux of it was that the Premier League is higher to Serie A. "In Italy at the impulse there are usually 3 teams Roma, Inter and Milan," Ancelotti said. "In England we are tested each week."

Given that Mourinho is rumoured to be on the move this summer positively a call from Manchester City might be on the way? afterwards the dual could shortly be confronting each alternative again in made at home competition. England would positively afterwards be the place to be.

Ancelotti would not be fazed by the awaiting even if it was transparent last deteriorate that this majority sanguinary of characters did concede the Portuguese man of fight to get underneath his skin. As is his wont. Maybe that was partly since Ancelotti attempted to dead-bat each alternative try at formulating a drama.

Maybe it was nerves and a transparent esteem to the city where he has left such a clever impression.

No, Ancelotti claimed, he did not contend that the total of Italy longed for Chelsea to kick Inter that, he claimed, was a in isolation review that had been misunderstood by an Italian publisher and no, he had not pronounced he would be Mourinho"s "worst nightmare" and hit him out of this competition.

He would wish to drive transparent of such hubris, positively so close to kick-off and in the glisten of the cameras. "I am not meddlesome in Mourinho," he said. "I am usually meddlesome in scheming my group well to fool around opposite Inter. Only this."

On Wednesday night, Ancelotti said, will additionally be a exam and, predictably, he rated it as a "50-50" match, smoothly balanced. A foe in between dual great teams in a "great moment" who are unfortunate to attain in a foe that he admitted, carrying won it twice as a player and twice some-more as a coach, stays changed to him, some-more changed than winning the league.

"The Champions League has a special captivate to me," he said. "I am going to try my majority appropriate for this club. I don"t think the expectations are as well big at Chelsea. For this club, I don"t think it"s some-more critical than the championship. It"s the same. I apply oneself Inter, they were a opposition for majority years and I will apply oneself them on Wednesday similar to I did in the past."

Respect, and he hopes, beat. Ancelotti has a clever jot down opposite Inter, generally in impressive person competitions but he said: "We need to be 100 per cent to kick them but they have to be 100 per cent to kick us."

Chelsea will have to do so with a predicament at left-back. With Ashley Cole harmed and Yuri Zhirkov additionally not means to transport since of calf complaint and with Paulo Ferreira not purebred for the Champions League there is service that Juliano Belletti"s knee has recovered amply for him to be included.

And with that, Ancelotti attempted to fool around it down again. Did tonight paint his greatest plea so far at Chelsea? Nope. "I don"t think so," he said.

"I had critical tests this year opposite Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal. It"s one of the majority critical matches since it"s the last sixteen of the Champions League and we wish to go forward. It"s the same for Inter."