Mourinho says draw would be bad for Liverpool

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes another draw against Liverpool at Anfield today would represent a bad result for the Merseyside club.

The teams played out a goalless stalemate in the Champions League on Wednesday and Mourinho says the onus will now be on Rafa Benitez's side in their Premier League clash.

"In the Champions League we started the game with the same number of points (three) and we had the same objective... to go into the next round," Mourinho said.

"In the Premiership the points difference is a minimum eight points (if Liverpool win their two games in hand). So I think a draw for them would be a very bad result."

Mourinho said the Merseysiders deserved a lot of credit for the way they had defended in the last three games against his team.

"In (the previous) six matches Liverpool have only beaten us once and we know in which circumstances they beat us," said Mourinho in a barbed reference to their controversial Champions League semi-final winner at Anfield last season.

"But at the same time we know also that in the last three games we couldn't score (against them) and we couldn't score because they defended really well."