Hema Kanani gives her thoughts on last night's Champions League exit of Chelsea at the hands of the Special One.
Chelsea were unceremoniously dumped out of the Champions League by Jose Mourinho’s Inter Milan - losing 1-0 at Stamford Bridge and 3-1 on aggregate.
To add insult to the wounds, Didier Drogba was sent off for stamping on an opponent.
Trailing 2-1, from the first leg in the San Siro, the Blues needed just a 1-0 victory.
But it was not their night.
Chelsea didn’t really produce much and appeared to play the long ball game rather than their normal passing game which didn’t make sense when Mourinho was pairing his players up in the midfield.
Whenever Chelsea did open up the Inter defence, a defender made a last-ditch tackle - Maicon's fantastic block on Didier Drogba a classic example.
There was a lot of action going down on the pitch but it didn’t involve the ball, Three Chelsea players were being man-handled and there should have been a penalty for the home side.
Chelsea finished the first half strongly but confirmed my fears that they were too nervous and found Inter to be a constant threat on the counter-attack.
The second half belonged to Inter, Mourinho fired up his team at half time, reminding them of their responsibilities and cautioning them on just how dangerous his old team could be.
Chelsea have struggled to keep clean sheets and they were to pay the ultimate price on 78 minutes when Samuel Eto’o zipped past the Chelsea rearguard and slotted home coolly past Ross Turnbull.
Chelsea needed two goals to take the tie into extra time but never looked like threatening the Inter goal.
Drogba’s frustration got the better of him and he was given a red card for stamping on Thiago Motto late on.
In a nutshell, the Inter players carried out "the Special Ones" orders, they really performed.
They were shocked by Inter's great performance.
So it’s back to the bread and butter of the Premier League and a semi-final of the FA Cup to take away some of the despair.