Liverpool have copped a lot of bad feedback in the wake of fielding what resembled a debilitated team against the European champions, with one eye obviously on Saturday’s Premier League conflict with Mourinho’s strong Chelsea side. And despite Rodgers defending his squad, the Blues’ boss has launched a thinly veiled dig at his opposite number’s apparent lack of ambition in a glamour Champions League tie.
Mourinho said: ‘I don’t speak about Liverpool. I speak about myself. If one day I go to a game and I don’t feel I can win, maybe I don’t go. So, normally, against the most difficult opponents, I will try to go with my best team but who knows.
‘Liverpool might play a fantastic match and win and rest players and the players are in great condition to play against Chelsea in this case it might be a genius decision. In football, it is difficult to comment.’
