Felix is the son of a ship’s cook – Jose’s mother, Maria Julia, came from a wealthier background. Background

MOURINHO Father, Felix, was goalkeeper with Vitoria Setubal and Portugal. Mourinho’s family still live in the coastal town of Setubal, to Lisbon’s south. The acquisition of Wright-Phillips has addressed that problem in the wide areas, but it is the prospect of Duff showing what a difference he could have made last season that adds to the weight of his duel with international team-mate Finnan.. In Crouch he faces an unfamiliar problem and one that could hold the key to Liverpool’s prospects of a repeat result.Finnan v DuffThe absence of winger Duff from Chelsea’s starting line-up in April highlighted the fatigue and the lack of options that even Mourinho faced towards the end of last season. Lampard, tired and kept out of range of the Liverpool goal, was reduced to pumping high balls into the area during the desperate final minutes of the second leg as Benitez secured one tactical triumph over Mourinho.Crouch v TerryOne early and costly defensive lapse aside, Terry, the Chelsea captain, was largely untroubled during the semi-final second leg at Anfield, although the pace of Djibril Ciss?id cause some problems as the visitors pressed in search of the away goal that would have spared the tears on the final whistle. “I don’t think he is under pressure because somebody booed; the pressure is on the next Manchester United manager when he leaves one day,” he said.

“That is the man under pressure.”Liverpool (probable, 4-4-1-1): Reina; Finnan, Carragher, Hyypia, Traor?Garcia, Hamann, Alonso, Riise; Gerrard; Crouch.Chelsea (probable, 4-3-3): Cech; Ferreira, Carvalho, Terry, Gallas; Essien, Makelele, Lampard; Robben, Crespo, Duff.Referee: M De Santis (Italy).Jewels in duels: Three key confrontations from tonight’s Anfield treasure chestGerrard v LampardGerrard, the Liverpool captain, sacrificed his natural attacking instincts in both legs of last season’s semi-final to help quell the influence of his fellow England midfielder It worked. Every game was close, the scoreline was always the minimum difference, but the overall score is 3-1 to us.”Mourinho missed May’s tumultuous final in Istanbul as he was travelling home from the airport, a much better excuse than that offered by Chelsea’s £23m midfielder Michael Essien, who admitted: “I was asleep.”The Chelsea manager also dismissed claims that Ferguson is facing the beginning of the end of his reign at Old Trafford as a consequence of the 10-point gap between the clubs only two months into the campaign. I read somewhere that they know how to beat us but it is 3-1 so they also know how to lose. We beat them twice in the Premier League, once in the Carling Cup Final, drew once and lost once. He said: “If you talk of revenge then you have to say we are winning 3-1 It is just one more game for me. They are doing similar things with different players and I have a lot of confidence. We have a lot of respect for them but we are not afraid because we know we can beat them.”Liverpool came ever closer to defeating Chelsea last season until, at the fifth and most valuable attempt, they succeeded.

Mourinho, inevitably, is claiming the upper hand on his Iberian rival and denied any suggestion that vengeance would be on his agenda at Anfield, although his persistent mention of Garcia’s goal, and whether it did indeed cross the line of the Kop goal, betrayed his declaration that this is just another game. “They have strong points and maybe some weak points,” he said. “If two boxers fight and they both have weak points then the important thing is who hits the other’s weak point first, [as] that can change everything We will have a similar approach to last year. When you are successful there are always people who want to criticise you but Chelsea are not bad for English football.”Not that Liverpool will countenance a Chelsea victory tonight. Both clubs made only minor improvements to their squad this summer, and though many believe the European champions needed to make more wholesale changes to compete with Mourinho’s men, Benitez does not consider himself at a disadvantage. “I was asked last season if I was jealous of Chelsea and their money,” said the Finnish international Hyypia.

“But if somebody has resources like they have then it would be stupid not to spend it. There is talk that they are boring, but is winning boring? We had it in 2001. We are a team without secrets, it is 4-3-3 and wingers all the time.”The Chelsea manager has allies in this observation from those he will encounter in the red corner tonight, with the Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez, the man who repeated his achievement of lifting the Uefa Cup and Champions’ League in successive seasons, and Sami Hyypia both insisting the champions have raised the bar rather than made competition redundant. “Apart from the Fulham Road, the Kings Road and my place in Portugal, which is very small and has only 50,000 people in it, after that the world is against us.”When Manchester United dominated the Premiership it was not boring, when Arsenal dominated the Premiership it was not boring, now we are not dominating, we have only won seven games, and yet it is boring.