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Tottenham manager José Mourinho has defended his training methods and staff skill after his team fell to their fifth Premier League loss in six games against West Ham United on Sunday.
The Spurs are now nine points behind the top four after losing 2-1 at West Ham and the result continues their miserable run of form in the league. Mourinho refused to admit defeat in his career by the top four after the match, but admitted that “there are problems” at the club.
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With Tottenham’s season in cup form, with Spurs in the EFL Cup final and still in the Europa League, Mourinho aims for success there, but after another defeat, despite a late rally and hitting the wood two Sometimes Mourinho was settled after the game.
When asked if he had ever doubted his training methods in the midst of this losing streak in form, Mourinho replied: “No, not at all. The results are the consequence of multiple situations in football. My and my body’s methods technically they are second to none in the world. “
Mourinho also dismissed suggestions that the team was in crisis, but admitted there is “frustration and sadness” in the locker room, saying they are having a “bad run of results.”
“Of course our team has problems, and the problems are reflected in results and points, but I also believe that a little bit of that light, a little bit of that luck that is also needed in football to win games, it has to be “. be back, “added Mourinho.
“And if that light comes back, it is different. You hit the post and the ball goes inside or outside. The decisions of the VAR, many times, I do not speak of today because today I did not look, but many times they are controversial.” , or they are decisions by an inch.
“Sometimes you also need a bit of luck to go your way. I think that if this team wins a couple of games in a row, the situation can change and that we can still fight for the top four. Of course if you say nine points now, it’s difficult, it’s very possible. “
But, speaking to the BBC, Mourinho said that there are problems at the club that are beyond his control: “I feel that we are not in the position in relation to our potential, although I think for a long, long time that we have problems in the team that I can’t solve it by myself as a coach. Our potential is higher than where we are, so there is frustration. “
