Antonio Conte accused Jose Mourinho of being obsessed with Chelsea after the Manchester United boss slammed whingeing managers.

Conte reacted angrily after hearing Mourinho appeared to accuse him of “crying” over injuries and lack of squad depth.

Conte said: “If he is speaking about me, I think he has to think about his team and start looking at himself, not others.”

The Italian, held by Roma after blowing a 2-0 lead, added: “I think that a lot of time Mourinho has to see what happened at Chelsea.

A lot of time, also last season. He needs to think about his team.”

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Mourinho, whoe side rind out a third straight group stage win. , had goaded Conte and others when he said moments earlier: “I never speak about injuries.

“Other managers cry and cry and cry - I don’t cry. The way to do it is ignore the players who are injured, to give confidence to the players who are available.

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“I can cry for the next five minutes if you like. We don’t have Zlatan, Pogba, Fellaini, Marcos Rojo.

“I can cry, but I don’t, so we do it with what we have. We went to Liverpool with two midfield players and nothing else.

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“We brought the kid on today, Scott McTominay, because I had no other solution.

“We’ve played 12 matches - 10 victories, two draws, nine clean sheets. We’re not bad.”

There has been no love lost between Conte and Mourinho with the Chelsea boss warning his players during the summer not to have a ‘Mourinho season’, a reference to the Special One’s chaotic final campaign at Stamford Bridge before he was sacked.

Last season Mourinho accused Conte of being disrespectful as the Italian celebrated the third and fourth goals in Chelsea’s 4-0 win over United. The two clubs meet on November 5.

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Chelsea’s draw with Roma means they have now gone three games without a win. Conte accepted the blame for the draw claiming he got his tactics wrong.

He said: “It’s right to take the responsibility because I tried, on the one hand, to protect my team and make us more solid, and to move David Luiz into central midfield. But on the other hand we lost totally our knowledge and style of football.”

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United’s match-winner Marcus Rashford went off with an injury in the 76th minute and Mourinho said: “I thought it was cramps because he was running so much.

"I thought it was about muscular fatigue, but he felt something in his knee, but to me it doesn’t look a big thing.”

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United’s goal came courtesy of a blunder from Benfica’s Mile Svilar, at 18, the youngest goalkeeper to play in the Champions League.

Svilar caught Rashford’s dipping 40-yard free-kick but was unable to prevent it from going over the line, with goal-line technology confirming the strike.