Jose Mourinho confirmed that ending Tottenham season in the Premier League golden box would be “incredible”
Tottenham was 14th behind, 12 points behind third-placed Chelsea
and 11 points off the Golden Square when Mourinho took over from Mauricio Pochettino in November.
And Saturday, he will face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
knowing that the victory will make him outperform the former Mourinho team and advance to the Golden Square.
Mourinho once said that getting second place with Manchester United,
a difference of 19 points behind Manchester City in the 2017-2018 season,
was one of the greatest accomplishments achieved over the course of his career full of titles.
But he said that ending the current season in the Golden Square with Tottenham will surpass this achievement.
especially in the absence of the influential attacking pair Harry Kane and Sun Hyung-min.
“The statistics are sometimes very absurd.
especially when people try to focus on quantitative statistics and forget that football is based on issues of quality and efficiency
“But if you want to focus on the numbers, Harry and Sun score most of the team’s goals.
so I see that it is not only from a personal perspective
that if this group of players succeeds in finishing the season in the golden box without Harry and Sun it will be an incredible achievement.”
Based on Premier League statistics since Mourinho took over.
Liverpool and Manchester City alone have scored more points than Tottenham in the last 14 games.
In that period, Spurs scored 11 points more than Chelsea.
“If you asked for my opinion, I would have preferred to start working with the players on the first of July
and start the preparation period for the season without injuries and on an equal basis with other teams,” Mourinho said.
“But the boys did a great job and brought themselves back to the position we deserve.
In 3 months the team evolved and progressed the point away from the golden square.
Everyone did a great job.”
“We got a chance to fight.
Some say ending the season in the golden box will be impossible, but we are ready to fight,” he said.
Despite the decline in the level of Chelsea.
Mourinho said that Frank Lampard’s team is a strong candidate to finish fourth at the end of the season
and that his return to Stamford Bridge, which he won three Premier League titles
during two previous periods in Chelsea training, does not bear any special significance.
“The only difference is that at the end of the game I can walk from the stadium to my home.
But even this feature I will not take advantage of. I will return with my players,” he said.
