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Mourinho’s side will host second-division Brentford on Tuesday looking to reach the League Cup final against Manchester United or Manchester City.
Tottenham coach José Mourinho. Image: @ SpursOfficial / Twitter
LONDON, UK – José Mourinho on Monday called Tottenham’s League Cup semi-final against Brentford the most important match of his reign.
Mourinho’s side will host second-division Brentford on Tuesday looking to reach the League Cup final against Manchester United or Manchester City.
Tottenham haven’t had a big trophy since winning the 2008 League Cup and Mourinho is desperate to end that drought.
Mourinho, who has lifted the League Cup four times in his career, believes that the importance of winning the silver medal this season makes Brentford’s game more important than any other since he took office in November 2019. .
“Yes, I think so. In the perspective of the club chasing the cutlery for many years, I would say so,” Mourinho said.
“Of course we always have important games, last season we had a match at Palace that would give us participation in the Europa League this season or not.
“The game against Leeds was very important as we had a few games without a victory in the Premier League, but I would say that a semi-final is always a very important game. The only one more important is a final.”
Mourinho has won the competition three times with Chelsea and once with Manchester United.
It was his first trophy in English football in 2005 and he insisted that it is still a worthwhile tournament despite some clubs having weakened teams.
Trophy hunter
“I won the Carling Cup in my first season after a few months in England in 2004-05, so for me every competition is different and it doesn’t matter what club you are in or what ambitions you have,” Mourinho said.
“That’s my way of looking at things, especially in a club without silverware for more than a decade.
“After more than a decade, each competition becomes more important and if we win two games we win a trophy.
“Two difficult games, of course, but if we win we get a trophy that I think would be very good for the club and for the players.
“It’s about my club, it’s about players who want trophies, it’s about fans who want trophies.”
If Tottenham reaches the final, which has been moved to April, they will face an even more congested match roster in the second half of the season as they will challenge on four fronts.
His schedule hasn’t been helped by last week’s postponement of his Premier League match with Fulham, which had a coronavirus outbreak, and Mourinho doesn’t want Tottenham to face four games in a week as it did at the start of the season.
“I’d like to know when we play Fulham, of course I’d like to know that,” he said.
“I refuse to talk about the Carabao Cup final because maybe Brentford is playing in it and not us.
“But I would like to know when we will play Fulham, totally refusing to be punished for congested and crazy games as we were at the beginning of the season.
“At the beginning of the season you can deal a little bit with people who forgot that Tottenham could be in that situation of playing a Europa League play-off. So I’m waiting.”
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