ANCELOTTI in trouble

CARLO ANCELOTTI admitted that Champions League failure has put him under pressure to win the Premier League title.

The Chelsea manager saw his team crash out of Europe to Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan last night - the first time they club has failed to reach the quarter-finals in four years.

But Italian Ancelotti refused to blame the referee's failure to give his side a penalty after two big shouts and admitted he must now win a major trophy.

Chelsea are two points behind Manchester United in the Prem but have a game in hand.

And they are in the FA Cup semi-finals where Aston Villa await.

Ancelotti though, conceded that last night's loss to former Chelsea boss Mourinho was a big blow.

He said: "Now we have two important competitions. We're at the top of the list and want to win.

"We'll have more pressure on the next few games but we must be strong and have good control of our emotions.

"Maybe this defeat could be a very good motivation for the next few games.

"My regret is we didn't play as well as we did in the first leg this evening.

"But I've worked for a long time in this environment and I know exactly what expectations are.

"It's normal that a manager is going to come under pressure if he loses a few matches."

Inter's Samuel Eto'o scored the winning goal at Stamford Bridge to complete a 3-1 victory on aggregate for the Serie A champions.

Blues striker Didier Drogba was also sent off for stamping on Thiago Motta after the Inter midfielder clearly fouled him in the area.

Ancelotti insisted he did not see the Drogba incident but refused to single out German referee Wolfgang Stark for not awarding Chelsea at least on spot-kick.

He said: "I always say that if the referee doesn't whistle... so I don't want to comment on his work, on the job of the referee. I didn't see the red card incident, so I don't know what happened in the box."

Ancelotti was a disconsolate figure and despite recording an historic win, refused to gloat about his old club.

The Portuguese coach pointed to Chelsea's history of being the nearly men of the Champions League after appearing in five semi-finals and one final - but never winning the competition.

Mourinho's Chelsea lost to Liverpool in 2005 after a controversial Luis Garcia goal before losing to the Anfield outfit on penalties in 2007.

They went out to Barcelona after numerous penalty shouts in the semis last season and were denied in a shootout against Manchester United in 2008.

Mourinho said: "I think that the team that lost a semi-final with a goal that was not a goal, lost a semi-final on penalties, lost a final on penalties, lost a semi-final in a game that they should have won 3-0 with three penalties.

"This is the story of this club and the story of these players. This is history, one of frustration.

"Today they had the ambition of going through and were frustrated today because they felt immediately that Inter were the best team.

"I'm not saying Inter are better than them. I'm saying that, today, Inter were much better than Chelsea and that brought frustration to the players, great professionals and great people.

"My people will always be my people. But today I was the enemy. And the enemy won. That's life."