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Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti believes the five-match touchline ban handed to Sir Alex Ferguson by the Football Association is too strong.
The Manchester United manager was given the ban and a £30,000 fine for his verbal attack on referee Martin Atkinson at Chelsea last month. However, Ancelotti believes the punishment does not fit the crime and questioned what the governing body is hoping to achieve with the ban.
”I think that, my opinion, is that Ferguson has always had good behaviour and I think five games now is too much,” he said. ”There is no reason he has to be out for five matches and I do not think that can change their strength and the power of Manchester United.”
He added: ”I know what he said after the game. Obviously it was not good behaviour but five games is too much.”
Ferguson criticised Atkinson’s failure to send Blues defender David Luiz off for fouls on Javier Hernandez and Wayne Rooney after the Brazilian had already been booked, then expressed comments the FA disciplinary panel felt had questioned the official’s integrity.
”You want a fair referee, or a strong referee anyway – and we didn’t get that,” said Ferguson in the aftermath of the 2-1 defeat. I must say, when I saw who the referee was I feared it. I feared the worst.”
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Petr Cech says Chelsea don’t fear anyone after booking their place in the Champions League quarter finals with a goalless draw against Copenhagen at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea squandered a host of chances with Yuri Zhirkov, Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka all going close. The Blues’ only scare came when Dame N’Doye smashed a free-kick against the post.
But with Anelka’s brace from the first leg in Denmark, Chelsea could afford to coast through the game and Cech says they are confident of beating whoever they play in the last eight.
Cech told ITV1: “We are in a good position. We did well and we are in the quarter-finals.
“Let’s see the draw but we are confident – we have got a lot of experience. We don’t mind [who we draw] – if you want to win the Champions League, you need to beat any opponent at any stage.
“We overcame a difficult period in our season and that made us strong for the Champions League. We’re happy that we are through. What we were missing was goals – we created enough chances but we didn’t take them.
“We needed to be careful at the back. Any goal would have given them belief. The job was done – we kept a clean sheet. The only thing missing was converting our chances.”
That in turn raised further questions over the Blues’ attacking combination, with January signing Fernando Torres benched and Didier Drogba and Anelka failing to find the net.
But manager Carlo Ancelotti maintained: “They are all fantastic players, we have a fantastic squad. We didn’t need to score today because we won 2-0 [in the first leg]. We had a lot of opportunities. We played well and had 24 shots.
“I will decide game by game. All the players are fit. The last game [Salomon] Kalou was important for us in Blackpool, and in the Champions League [first leg] Anelka scored two goals.”
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