Jose Mourinho has rubbished claims that he is ultra-defensive, accusing his critics of double standard for not condemning Antonio Conte whose Chelsea team was “very defensive and phenomenal on the counterattack”.

The Portuguese coach critics have always accussed him of consistently applying his bus-parking defence approach to virtually all the clubs he has handled in his coaching career.

“You are in the direction of a lie told a thousand times become truth and it is not true,” he told BeIN Sports.

“When people remember the incredible match that Inter played in Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final with 10 men, people say that was a masterclass of defensive football but was two buses parked.

“You don’t say that two weeks before [it was] Inter 3 Barcelona 1. We put ourselves in the position to go there and defend that result, playing with 10 men against the best team in the world, because two weeks before we beat them 3-1 and it should be four or five.

“When I came to Chelsea for the second time and we were champions, we were champions when we were not the best team in the country.

“To be champion when you are not the best team in the country you have to be more strategic than philosopher.

“And then, when Chelsea was champion again with Antonio Conte, Chelsea was a counterattacking team – very defensive and phenomenal on the counterattack.

“Once more they did it by the strategic point of view. But, because it was Antonio and not me, you didn’t mention it.”