Chelsea had a highly impressive 5-0 win at Schalke in the Champions League on Tuesday, which was the best away performance José Mourinho has ever seen from his club.

"The players are very serious," Mourinho said. "Everything they do with big focus and ambition, but at the same time with this extra component which is quite something new in Chelsea football: this happiness, this flair, this beauty.

"Sometimes people who don't understand a lot about football try to put a stamp on a manager: this manager is this, this manager is that. The good ones adapt to reality.

"In this moment this team is completely different to my team in 2004-08. Completely different. Different players. Different profile. So we play a different football.

"As I was saying, this team, to be so good or better than other Chelsea teams? This team needs to win. At this moment: zero titles. We have to transform the quality of our game into results, which we are getting now. But we have to try and win things so this team goes down in Chelsea's history as a brilliant team who won something."