A late goal from Inter Milan’s Samuel Eto’o sealed a 1-0 win over Chelsea in the last 16 second leg at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday for a 3-1 aggregate victory, giving Jose Mourinho his revenge.
Mourinho was back at Chelsea for the first time since being sacked in September 2007 following a power struggle with Blues owner Roman Abramovich, and he showed the Russian what he had let go by devising the perfect gameplan to eliminate his former team.
The Portuguese coach once criticised Tottenham for “parking the bus” after Chelsea were shut out by their defensive London rivals, but Mourinho borrowed a trick or two from that scheme to keep Carlo Ancelotti’s side at bay before Eto’o's strike secured victory.