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Scored: Refaelov (29)
In the 2002/03 season, José Mourinho attended the Europa League for the first time in his career (then also known as the UEFA Cup) which led Porto (Portugal) to the championship title in a convincing manner. At that time, the Porto team was not as famous as it was at that time.
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| Antwerp vs Tottenham |
For the 2016/17 season, Mourinho for the second time in his career led the army to compete in the Europa League, this time as a MU coach. Miracles reappeared when he added a Europa League title to his huge collection of trophies. Even with the framework in which his predecessor Louis van Gaal failed to lead MU to the Champions League group stage and then stopped on the eighth day of the Europa League, Mourinho “pushed” the Red Devils to the throne.
Mourinho’s affinity with the Europa League appears to continue this season. Tottenham entered the 2020/21 season with a record of not winning four consecutive Europa League games. But under the hands of “Special One”, Spurs have won all four Europa League games this season (including qualifying). In particular, they defeated Maccabi Haifa (Israel) in two play-off rounds with a total score of 7-2 and then opened the group stage with a 3-0 victory over LASK Linz (Austria).
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| Tottenham started with a family picture of 4-2-3-1 |
With the achievements that we have just preliminarily listed, José Mourinho is truly the goose of the Europa League playing field. In the second round of the group match, Tottenham must be invited by Royal Antwerp, a team that has a very high performance with a series of 7 consecutive undefeated games (winning 6).
However, in fact, Antwerp’s achievement comes mainly from the Belgian league, where they are the defending champions. Meanwhile, on the Europa League pitch, the Belgian team only won in the last 4 matches. Furthermore, Antwerp has relatively little European experience and has just faced English clubs twice on the continental pitch with a 100% loss rate.
Of course, before such an opponent is in the group stage, there is no reason for Mourinho to pitch the stronger team. So, like winning the LASK a week ago, it gave the opportunity to many substitutes, but to be more precise, those who did not start in the 1-0 victory over Burnley a few days ago for these Few names are enough to play regularly. like Reguilon, Winks, Davinson, Lo Celso, Bergwijn or even Gareth Bale.
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| Like the LASK win, Bale had a chance to show himself, but the brand was pretty weak. |
Only goalkeepers Hugo Lloris and Ben Davies (kicking midfielder, not left-back) should continue to play. Despite the mess, the Spurs are clearly more appreciated than Antwerp. Only José Mourinho’s army was not really good.
Half of the first half passed, but the visitors only managed an intimidating game from Bergwijn’s 16m50 goal. Without stopping there, until the 29th minute they also had to concede first. Ben Davies carelessly controlled the ball and it was stolen by Mbokani and quickly entered the 16m50 area to give Refaelov clean control of the ball and coldly beat Lloris.
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| Refaelov opened the scoring for host Antwerp after Ben Davies’ mistake |
During his career, Mbokani (born 1986) played two short seasons in the Premier League for Norwich and Hull City, and the achievement was not outstanding. It seemed that after pouring in the cold water, Tottenham’s “substitute star” quality might wake up, but in the end, until the end of the first half, the Spurs still behaved like a mess.
The team from the English capital is not in a really dangerous situation with a high goal score. Even Tottenham is no better than the opponent in terms of time to control the ball.
Given the insufficiency of the local team and remaining in the state of being directed, at the beginning of the second half, coach Mourinho substituted 4 positions in the team. Lucas Moura, Hojbjerg, Lamela and especially this season’s number one scorer Son Heung Min was thrown onto the field to turn the tables.
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| Star Son Heung Min entered the field early in the second half, but was unable to save Tottenham |
However, in the 49th minute, the Spurs had to receive a second goal if Davinson did not hit the ball correctly in front of Mbokani’s shoe. Before that, Harry Winks had a bad pass, fixing the back of his teammates.
But that situation was not heartbreaking with the ball in the 54th minute. The ball stretched close to the goal and Mbokani ran to the goal … the stands several meters away. Immediately after that, Jukelrod actively “squeezed” the ball towards Tottenham’s goal when he noticed that Lloris was a bit high, but the French goalkeeper still flew to push the ball out.
In the 62nd minute, Lucas Moura passed in the middle of the 16m50 area to Son Heung Min to cut, but home team midfielder Seck successfully stopped. Tottenham’s failure to prosper as expected meant manager José Mourinho was unable to hide his frustration off the pitch.
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| Harry Kane wasn’t much better than Son Heung Min after entering the field |
In the 72nd minute, host Antwerp once again squandered the opportunity. On a quick counterattack, Jukelrod accelerated well to penetrate Tottenham’s penalty area, but the final shot was fired despite the wide-open goal.
Towards the end of the match, Tottenham became more aggressive and the ball almost rolled over to the home side, but the Premier League representative was unable to get the most important thing: the goal.
Outside the stadium, many Antwerp fans had a fireworks display to enliven the spirits of their beloved players and cause more inhibition to the visitors.
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| Mourinho did all he could but still hasn’t helped Tottenham avoid a shock defeat |
The injury time is up to 5 minutes, but it doesn’t help Tottenham either. In the end, teachers and students José Mourinho had to receive the second defeat in the 2020/21 season after losing 1-0 to Everton on the first day of the Premier League. This is definitely a shocking result because they are better than their opponents in every way and even spend “huge amounts”, but still cannot turn the tables.
Anyway, the group stage of the Europa League this season still has 4 more games and Tottenham also has 3 points as capital, so the door to continue is still wide open with the group “Gallo”.
TEAM
AMBERES (3-5-2): Jean Butez; Richie De Laet, Jeremy Gelin, Abdoulaye Seck; Koji Miyoshi (Buta 58 ‘), Pieter Gerkens, Faris Haroun, Martin Hongla (Verstraete 69’), Simen Jukelrod; Diumerci Mbokani, Lior Refaelov (Benavente 88 ‘).
TOTTENHAM (4-2-3-1): Hugo Lloris; Serge Aurier, Davinson Sánchez, Ben Davies, Sergio Reguilon; Harry Winks, Giovani Lo Celso (Hojbjerg 46 ‘); Gareth Bale (Harry Kane 58 ‘), Dele Alli (Lamela 46’), Steven Bergwijn (Lucas Moura 46 ‘); Carlos Vinicius (Son Heung-Min 46 ‘).
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