There was a point here when the heat of the battle was becoming so intolerably high the two managers had come together on the touchline and were straying dangerously close to a full-on confrontation. That clash between José Mourinho and Brendan Rodgers seemed emblematic of a night when the undercurrent of bad feeling between the two teams was never too far the surface and Diego Costa went far enough the Football Association may feel compelled to act.
It was a breathless encounter full of incident and drama and probably encapsulated by the way Mourinho did not even see the decisive goal. As Branislav Ivanovic headed in Willian’s free-kick four minutes into the first period of extra time the Chelsea manager had turned his back to the pitch to complain to the fourth official, Phil Dowd.
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