For the Portuguese coach, the incident between the world champion and the South Korean striker on Monday evening is proof that his team has character. Surprising on the part of two players with exemplary behavior, this stroke of blood did not displease their coach José Mourinho. On the contrary. "It was wonderful," said the Spurs coach, even taking some responsibility for the incident. "If you want to criticize someone, it's me. I have criticized my players who are not, in my eyes, critical enough towards each other. I asked them to be more demanding and put their teammates under pressure so that there is this team spirit where we give everything for each other (…) There were a few bad words, I don't know not even if there were strollers or not, but it is something important for the team to grow, because it takes strong personalities, so I was very happy, "added the" Special One ”, specialist in provocation 'to relaunch its teams when they are in difficulty. This is the case of Tottenham, only 8th and far from a European Cup qualification at the moment.
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