Live Coverage: Jose Mourinho's weekly Chelsea press conference

Good afternoon! Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho will be speaking to the media shortly as he prepares his side for their first shot at silverware this season.

We already know that Nemanja Matic will be missing for Chelsea as he's suspended following his sending off against Burnley in the Premier League last weekend. John Obi Mikel has been the only player out through injury recently though, so Mourinho should have almost his full squad available for the final, unless he tells us otherwise this lunchtime.

Here are the players making their way out to training a little earlier:

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This will be just the second time that Chelsea have come up against a Premier League side in this competition. They knocked Liverpool out in the semi-final, having also faced Derby, Shrewsbury and Bolton earlier in the competition.

Don't forget, we'll be bringing you live text commentary of the match, as well as all the team news, half-time and full-time reports plus post-match reaction, so make sure you're with us on Sunday afternoon.

Right then, the manager has arrived and is ready to face the media...

The manager starts by insisting that he is only focused on Sunday's final: "This is the only moment since I arrived in July 2013 that I don't think about the future. I just think about the moment, I just think about this game. We have a final to win on Sunday, and nothing else matters."

While the Premier League title or the Champions League may be valued more by some fans, Mourinho says that this is just as important: "I have affinities with every competition. I respect every competition. We take every competition seriously and probably lots of teams follow us since 20014-05 when we took the League Cup as a real challenge."

Mourinho admits that Chelsea cannot win every competition: "Chelsea cannot win everything and cannot win every season. If you want to do that, we have to change country to where the competition is not as hard. Chelsea in the last 10 years won just the League Cup twice, but was many times at Wembley and won FA Cups, won Premier Leagues and European cups. We try to build with this new generation of players and try to make Wembley something normal for us."

Mourinho's press officer steps in when a question about referees comes up, but the manager does say: "If I give you my views, it is bad for me, if I speak about Nemanja Matic again I will be in big, big trouble."

Unlike their opponents, Chelsea were not in European action this week. Mohamed Salah, who is on loan from Chelsea at Fiorentina, scored against Spurs, but the manager insists that is not relevant: "He's getting his time there on the pitch and that's all we care about, his evolution. We don't care that he scores against an English club. We need English teams to do well in Europe, I'm never happy to see English clubs lose in Europe."

Mourinho confirms that the only absentees will be the suspended Matic and Mikel, who is still injured.

On this weekend's opponents, Mourinho says: "I don't think we have a physical advantage, I don't think Tottenham will play with the same players as they did on Thursday. They will be focused on the game and I think to play yesterday was good for them. A final is a final, it doesn't matter about the opponents. To be a London club, for me, doesn't add anything to the game."

When these sides met on New Year's Day, Chelsea were on the wrong end of a 5-3 scoreline, and the manager admits: "Every time we were making mistakes, we were punished. It is difficult to analyse a game we started so well and could have been 2-0 up, but to go from there to lose, it's hard to discuss."

Spurs's Harry Kane and Christian Eriksen have been two players in strong form in recent weeks. However, when asked if the pair could play for Chelsea, Mourinho simply says: "I don't speak about them."

With the return leg of their Champions League tie against Paris Saint-Germain just a few days after the final, attention turns to last week's incident of racist chanting by Chelsea fans on a Paris train. The manager says: "What happened in Paris is not the way Chelsea fans behave, and that is why Chelsea took immediate action. The supporters know how to enjoy moments like cup finals, they know that was not the way to behave."

Mourinho is asked about his opposite number, Mauricio Pochettino, and he says: "A guy that I respect. He's doing his work the same as many people, we don't have problems. I think it will be an easy job for the fourth officials because between both benches there will be peace."

That's all from Mourinho for now, so make sure you're back here on Sunday to see whether Chelsea can beat Spurs to lift the League Cup. Until then, thanks for joining me this afternoon. Goodbye.