REVEALED: Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho on the Stoke player who almost killed him

Posted Saturday, December 20, 2014 by Dailystar.co.uk

Jose Mourinho says Chelsea need to watch out for Stoke star Bojan - because the Spanish youngster once almost killed him!

The Portuguese takes his league leaders to the Britannia on Monday night hoping to extend their advantage at the top of the Premier League.

And there's one man Mourinho is particularly fearful in the opposition line-up.

The Chelsea boss said: "Bojan is the only player that almost killed me with a heart attack because in the last minute of Barcelona against Inter in the semi-final of the Champions League (in 2010) he scored an amazing goal - offside!"

"I looked to the other side and to the linesman – offside!"

"Apart from that he is a very dangerous player who is adapting well to the Premier League, which is never easy for a striker."

Along with issuing a warning to his side about Bojan's quality, Mourinho added that the Blues must deal with aerial and physical threat posed by Mark Hughes' side.

"They are a good and difficult side," he added. "They have that important base that Tony Pulis gave them: physicality, set-pieces, aggressive, direct. This was the base of their success since they came to the Premier League."

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"In the last couple of years with Mark Hughes, without losing that identity, he has brought some of his own ideas, some players that can have more than that physicality."

"We have to go there and play our game but we know well their qualities as a team and their qualities individually and we have also to adapt to it."