Mourinho said: "Manchester United are second now, a few days ago it was Arsenal but it's not our problem because at the moment they have a big fight for second place. They have to fight each other to see who can be more comfortable there. We need to win nine matches and draw one to be sure of winning the league and I don't care about Manchester United, I don't care about Arsenal, I just care about us. We are just concentrating on what we have to do. I watched the match on Tuesday, it was a great game between two sides who both wanted to win and although I would have preferred a draw it was better for us that Manchester United won because Arsenal were closer to us."
Blackburn had watered their pitch before the game on Wednesday and Mourhino showed that he has been prickled by Ferguson's comments about Chelsea finding it hard to play teams in the north:
"I am very, very confident that we can cope with whatever we face. If we go to another stadium and the same thing happens we can cope. If we go to Bolton or Everton and they have also watered the pitch to make it very heavy we have shown we can cope with that too. We are showing we are ready for everything - we can play football and we can fight."