Jose happy with Chelsea reaction

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho will have
headed home from Romania in a better mood
than when he arrived after Chelsea's 4-0
demolition of Steaua Bucharest 'cleaned up'
their Champions League mess.
Mourinho's team selections had been
questioned by the British press after last
month's shock 2-1 home defeat to Basle in
their European opener and the Portuguese
coach cut short his pre-match news
conference on Monday irritated by further
questions on the issue.
While Mourinho looked impassive after
watching his side, he was clearly happier about
his team's position in Group E where they are
now second on three points behind Germany's
Schalke 04, who won 1-0 against Basle on
Tuesday to move onto six.
"We needed to clean up what we did at home
(against Basle)and we did it with a good
performance," he said of the 2012 Champions
League winners who failed to advance from the
group stage last season.
"If we didn't win today we were in trouble. We
finish the group with a game at home (against
Steaua), that is an advantage, but at this
moment I don't want to think about finishing
first, I want to think about qualifying for the
next stage."
Brazil midfielder Ramires scored twice, either
side of an own goal from Daniel Georgievski,
Frank Lampard got the fourth, while German
winger Andre Schurrle and Spain's Juan Mata
were outstanding in a game Chelsea could have
won by a bigger margin.
"Schurrle was fundamental. We identified what
we had to do to penetrate their defence He
was the man for that," said Mourinho, who
had publicly criticised the newly-arrived
German after the Basle defeat.
"We scored four and probably could have
scored six or seven because we played really
well.
"I put a lot of pressure on the players for this
game, and they coped well with that pressure,"
he added.
"In attacking areas we had beautiful moments
in the game but everything started at the back.
(Branislav) Ivanovic, David Luiz, who made
zero mistakes all game, (John) Terry and
(Ashley)Cole gave us stability and from there
the team could cope with the situation."
Mourinho even maintained his optimism when
talking about Fernando Torres' knee injury
after the Spain striker had limped off in the
11th minute.
"Our doctor is confident it is not a big injury
like (Marco) Van Ginkel's, but we will have to
wait for the scans," he said following the news
that Van Ginkel could miss the rest of the
season with ligament damage.
Next up for Chelsea are back-to-back matches
against Schalke who will prove a much sterner
test for the Londoners than the Steaua who are
bottom of the table having lost both their
matches and conceded seven goals.
"Now we have three points from two matches.
Basle lost and now have the same points as us,
so Schalke have the advantage, but we now
have two fixtures against them. We are going
to do it