The Portuguese coach of Real Madrid stressed that his team is not going to underestimate the Cypriots, he just has to first find out which team he is playing with, because he said other things to the representatives of the Spanish press.
He said in detail: "APOEL reached this phase of the Champions League, because it won in the" 16 "of the tournament and was first in its group. We can not talk about a stronger or weaker team at this stage.
We have to respect our opponent and the course he has this season. It did not have the course that other historical clubs had, but they did very well in the group stage.
They grew up as a team this year and managed to beat Porto and Lyon. They have less chances and dynamics than other teams they have faced.
When I was the coach of Inter, we drew in Nicosia, something we did not deserve. "Every team that plays there knows that it will suffer."
Of course, when he was at Inter, he played against Anorthosis and not against APOEL (!!!).
The Spaniards referred extensively to this issue and especially "AS" did not let anything fall down, putting in his place Mourinho for his mistake.
"Mourinho confused APOEL with Anorthosis", is the title of the article and the text inside reads the following: "He praised the opponent in the Champions League, assuring that he had drawn with Inter three years ago, when in fact he had faced another Cypriot team. He never played with APOEL ".
Source: Woop.gr