Riise howler poetic justice, says Jose

JOSE MOURINHO has described John Arne Riise’s own goal for Liverpool against Chelsea in the Champions League semi-final as poetic justice — but he insists the outcome of the tie is still 50-50.

Mourinho lost two Champions League semi-finals at Anfield and is still bitter about the first of them in 2005. Liverpool won 1-0 on aggregate thanks to a Luis Garcia strike which Mourinho dubbed “a ghost goal” because he said the ball did not cross the line.

The Portuguese said of Riise’s calamity: “It was in exactly the same goal, with that incredible — I love it — good crowd Liverpool has in the Kop.