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Publication date: Monday, September 14, 2020 7:06 AM
José Mourinho believes that his team’s poor start to the Premier League season was due to a preseason that was interrupted by players who contracted the coronavirus and international matches, and he also had problems with refereeing.
Spurs fell 1-0 to Dominic Calvert-Lewin goal in the second half in North London (which came from a free kick that Mourinho said was taken in the wrong place) and it was a loose display.
Mourinho has only had a few sessions with his entire team as several anonymous players tested positive for Covid-19, more had to self-quarantine as a result of coming into contact and then a host from his squad traveled to play for their national teams.
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The Portuguese assured that “he did not like his team” and lacked intensity, but he did give them mitigation in the form of poor preparation.
“Harry Kane trained with us once,” he said. “Moussa Sissoko, partner and I’m not going player to player. For different reasons, many of our players did not have the proper preseason.
“We had positive Covid cases, we have the right not to say which players, but we had players, we had other players in quarantine due to proximity to positive players.
“We had a player in quarantine because he was on vacation in a country that the government quarantined, we had national teams where many of them went to his team so it was a difficult preseason.
“I couldn’t expect them to be sharp, intense, agile. But I expected much more individually and collectively.
“It disappoints me, and that’s where I have to work now. The players who did not have preseason, now we don’t have the possibility to give them a preseason but we have many games now to play consecutively and we have to use these games, not just to win them. and the heats are obviously decisive with everything decided in 120 minutes or even penalties, and we tried to take advantage of this to improve the form of some players because some of them were really in trouble ”.
The Spurs had some decent chances in the first half, but they didn’t show up after the break and the Calvert-Lewin header in the 55th minute was enough for Everton.
It came from a Lucas Digne free kick, but Mourinho was not happy with where the delivery was taken from.
“I didn’t like my team, but I also didn’t like that so many referees on the pitch, on the touchline and in front of the screen allow a free kick to be taken five or six meters in front to allow for a completely different angle. delivery.
“I can complain now because I was complaining before the goal. But I didn’t like my team. “
For Everton, this was a declaration of intent that this could finally be the year they make the top six after a series of false sunrises.
Carlo Ancelotti has been backed in the summer and all three signings – Allan, Abdoulaye Doucoure and James Rodríguez – impressed in a victory that could have been much more attractive.
The Italian is confident his team can compete for a European spot this season.
“We are satisfied, I am satisfied, the team’s performance was brilliant,” he said. “I’m happy with the performance, it was important against a difficult team.
“I am happy that we started the season well and we showed that we can compete, which is the most important message to carry. We can compete with everyone if the spirit is good, if the attitude is good and the players showed it.
“We said that our objective is to try to reach the European position, we started well. The problem we had last season for much of the time we were up and down in the first game was good, we have to see for the second and third. I’m very confident, I had something before this game and now I have more but we have to be focused ”.
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