Manchester United Manager, Jose Mourinho, has said that Chelsea’s lack of European football has helped them a lot this season but insisted he was not trying to discredit the club’s Manager, Antonio Conte.

Chelsea will welcome Manchester United in the FA Cup quarter-final clash on Monday and Mourinho said the game was of no special significance to him.

The former Real Madrid Manager, whose side is still competing in the Europa League, the Premier League and the FA Cup, said the Blues’ schedule was working in their favour.

He told reporters, “The most difficult thing to have is the time to work [on the training pitch] and they have time to work.

“I know that he [Conte] said a couple of weeks ago that it’s not his fault that they are not in the European competitions – it’s my fault and the players’ fault.

“But the reality is that he got a situation in his hands where they have time to work, time to rest, time to relax, time to disconnect, time to travel, time to have holidays, time to go and enjoy America for a couple of days, they have time for all of these things, so they are in a position of privilege, the same privilege that Liverpool had a couple of years ago when they almost won the Premier League.

“But I don’t want to say that they don’t deserve credit for it. I know what I did at Chelsea but I am the kind of guy that when I move I have no regrets and I am not looking for bad feelings at all.”