Paris: Chelsea became the only English team to secure a positive result from the Champions League last 16 first leg ties with a 1-1 draw away at Galatasaray on Wednesday.
Chelsea, winners of the trophy in 2012, slightly redeemed English Premier League honour by their result in Istanbul and in the process were also the only one of the quartet to even score a goal Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United all lost 0-2, to holders Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Olympiakos respectively.
Mourinho may have been caught unawares by a camera crew deriding his strikers but one of them Fernando Torres making his 300th appearance for an English club made no mistake for his ninth goal of the season in the ninth minute.
Aurelien Chedjou gave the hosts a deserved equaliser in the 62nd minute as he shook off John Terry to volley home.
Mourinho bemoaned the chances that had gone begging in the first-half and which could have given them a sizeable advantage for the second leg. "The result is not amazing but we will take it," said the Portuguese.
"I am not being critical of my striker Fernando had a fantastic game but we missed control at crucial times and the final ball was lacking. It is not a bad result and is better than 0-0 but they a very good team and have big strikers so the second leg will be tough," Mourinho added.
