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Pellegrini ignoring Mourinho 'mind games'

Mourinho has played down his Chelsea team's title chances throughout the campaign despite seeing them top of the table many times this season.

After a shock 1-0 loss to Crystal Palace on Saturday, Mourinho said it was impossible for his side to win the Premier League.

"I don't think other managers can be giving any importance to those mind games," he said.

"I don't know if you think managers who play mind games are more intelligent? I don't think so.

"I don't respond to it because I don't know what he says. It's not my duty to respond to what Mourinho says. I don't know the way he thinks."

"My way of thinking is that the four teams will have the same options to win the title," he said.

"The other teams have 18 points more to win, six games more. We have eight games more.

"We have to win those points. We don't have six points, we have two games extra to play – it's not the same thing.

"Do I regret the points we dropped away from home earlier in the season? I don't think at this moment it is important. It is too far away to start thinking or talking about those games.

"If you look at the whole season I think we are the second team in terms of points playing away. We can only influence what happens in the future."