The Portuguese coach was eliminated in a tournament he won in 2017 with Manchester United. In the post-match press conference, he released -as always- several controversial phrases and also acknowledged that he personally congratulated the Croatian team that eliminated them this Thursday by giving them a painful thrashing.
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The Tottenham Hotspur led by Portuguese José Mourinho had the favorite poster in the current edition of the UEFA Europa League. However, this Thursday was eliminated in the Round of 16 by the leader of the first division of Croatian football, Dinamo Zagreb. The English were humiliated in their own home, losing the match by a landslide three goals to zero.
Dinamo Zagreb made it into the top eight teams in the Europa League
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Harry Kane, Gareth Bale and company won the first leg 2-0, but on the return his defensive saga was not up to the task. Even, according to the technician, no one on the team was. So he let it be known in statements offered after the game, in which he released at least four quite sharp sentences, amid his outrage.
First, the Portuguese criticized the attitude of his players during the match. “My team didn’t seem like they were playing an important game. You need another attitude. Saying that I feel sad is not enough. What I feel is much more than sadness.”
The technician He confessed that he reprimanded his players at halftimeprecisely because of that behavior. “I told them the risks of a bad attitude. I told them at halftime the risks of playing as we were playing … and it happened. They only realized that the game was at risk when they scored the second goal for us and everything went into extra time. “.
Equally, He acknowledged that there was no strategy and for this he apologized to his hobbyn. “My team did not bring the basics of football or life to the game: respect our work and give it our all. I can only apologize to the Tottenham fans.”
By last, revealed that he went to the locker room of his executioners to congratulate them. “I went to the Dinamo locker room to praise the players. I am sorry that one team won the match because of attitude and commitment. Soccer is not just about players who have more quality than others. The basics of soccer is attitude… and we they won at that. “
