Source: London – Reuters
There was little mention in Tottenham Hotspur’s 1-0 victory over Everton in the Premier League on Monday, except for the argument between Hugo Lloris and teammate Sun Hyung-Min between the two halves that coach Jose Mourinho described as beautiful.
With one victory in nine matches in all pre-match competitions and doubting the team’s motives by Mourinho after a 3-1 defeat at Sheffield United last week, emotions were burning.
Tottenham were ahead thanks to a goal from Everton’s defender Michael Kane, who missed his goal, but Loris was furious, while the players were leaving the field on the way to rest, and spoke loudly to Sun because of his failure to return to the defense when Richardson got a dangerous chance at the end of the first half. Their colleagues had to separate them, even though the smile eventually flew over their faces.
Mourinho, who has become only the fifth coach to reach 200 Premier League wins and the second fastest coach to achieve this in terms of the number of matches behind Alex Ferguson, said he encouraged his players to criticize each other.
“It is beautiful,” added Mourinho, whose team jumped to eighth in the standings, nine points behind fourth-placed Chelsea. This most likely happened as a result of our meetings. If you are to blame someone, it is me. I criticized my players … and they did not criticize themselves enough. And Abizaid: I asked them to be more cruel with each other. Sun is an amazing boy, everyone loves him, but the captain told him that he should do more for the team.
Mourinho, who has won three Premier League games with Chelsea, confirmed that he encouraged the exchange of views frankly between the players, although he did not encourage this to happen in front of television cameras. He said: Any team made up of nice players The only thing he can win at the end of the season is the Fair Play Cup and I was never interested in winning that, I don’t like the team that does not have a sense of criticism. What happened between the two halves was not supposed to happen there. It should have happened inside the dressing room, but I can assure you that my victorious teams witnessed great arguments.
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