Spurs boss Mourinho beams: Great spirit, great football, I'm so happy

Football
24 Nov 2019 • 7:21 AM MYT
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Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho was delighted with the manner of victory at West Ham.

The Hammers held their own for 36 minutes in Jose Mourinho's first game in charge of the visitors, only to concede twice before half-time to Heung-min Son and Lucas Moura.

Harry Kane's header seemingly put the game beyond the Irons shortly after the break, before consolation strikes from the returning Michail Antonio and Angelo Ogbonna gave the final score an air of respectability.

Mourinho said: You have to look to the conditions, national team players one arrived Monday, one arrived Tuesday, another one Wednesday another yesterday, new manager, a little bit of new ideas, of course, I select the information, the ideas and the work, but it's still different. The emotions related to that.

I think the added pressure of not winning a Premier League match away, it's normal you cannot perform the best way for 90 minutes but even in difficult periods you could see sacrifice, you could see players wanted to do it for the team, Moussa and Danny in physical problems with injuries but they stayed on the pitch because we had no more changes to make.

So, great spirit, great football, I'm so happy with what we did in the positional and dynamic point of view, especially in possession.

West Ham is a good team, lots of players with experience, it's not like we played a team without quality. We had the feeling of the derby, it's not easy and we faced that.

At the end of the game I didn't want to go to our fans as I felt I shouldn't, it's about the players, not about me, so apologies for that. I stayed away but I appreciate a few thousand were there and right behind the team, enjoying and understanding and supporting - now they are as happy as we are."