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Portuguese coach José Mourinho and former Sporting defender Eric Dier played an unusual moment this Tuesday, fifteen minutes from the end of the match between Tottenham and Chelsea.
Although the spurs they lost 0-1, the player couldn’t hold out and had to leave the pitch to go to the bathroom to relieve himself. However, the technician, concerned after having seen the blues About to score another goal, he went to the locker room to pick up his footballer.
The truth is that with eleven players, including a looser and lighter Eric Dier, Tottenham reached the tie and it was still time to seal the qualification for the fifth day of the English League Cup by winning in the tie for sanctions.
At the press conference, a journalist argued that, “when you are urinating, the last thing you can do is go press there.” Good-natured, José Mourinho had an answer to the level: “The problem is that it was not just about urinating.”
Mourinho’s side had just two starters from the last match against Newcastle on the final day of the Premier League, French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris and center-back Eric Dier, while Chelsea emerged with just three starters from the previous match, at home. West Bromwich, the Serbian Mateo Kovacevic, Mason Mount and the German Timo Werner.
Chelsea was superior in the first half against a very close Tottenham, as if to privilege not conceding goals, but that strategy failed at 19 minutes, when Timo Werner opened the scoring.
In the second half, Tottenham seemed much more relaxed in their offensive dynamics and forced Chelsea to defend further back, but the tying goal, which could have appeared earlier, only appeared in the 83rd minute, by Argentine Erik Lamela, after . de Mourinho having thrown Lucas Moura and Harry Kane, at 70 and 76, in an attempt to take the decision to penalties.
A goal that Tottenham fully justified for what he did in the second half and that earned him the passage to the next round of the English League Cup, as he was more effective in collecting penalties, converting five against four of the team from Frank Lampard, who saw Mason Mount miss his fifth kick.
