{"id":191568,"date":"2020-02-06T12:53:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T11:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=191568"},"modified":"2020-02-06T12:53:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T11:53:27","slug":"fa-cup-fifth-round-mourinho-claims-tottenham-didnt-deserve-to-qualify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=191568","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup fifth round: Mourinho claims Tottenham didn&#8217;t deserve to qualify"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Tottenham Hotspur manager, Jose Mourinho, has admitted the \u201cbest team lost\u201d following their 3-2 win over Southampton in the FA Cup on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides had played out a 1-1 at St Marys, prompting a replay yesterday at White Hart Lane.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs took the lead through a Jack Stephens\u2019 own goal, before the visitors scored twice through Shane Long and Danny Ings.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho\u2019s men fought back to win, thanks to Lucas Moura\u2019s effort and Heung-Min\u2019s late penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media after the game, Mourinho admitted his players were suffering from fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to be honest. The best team lost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at it in a pragmatic way of forgetting that they had their best player, their best team, they had one more day to rest, we were really in trouble to build the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLots of fatigue from the (Manchester) City match. If you analyse in a simple, pragmatic way, the best team lost. They were better than us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I cannot forget all the other circumstances and my players, they were phenomenal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to manage this chess game without pieces. No bishops, no kings, no queens. Very, very hard with so many injuries and problems. No (Steven) Bergwijn. It was very difficult,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur manager, Jose Mourinho, has admitted the \u201cbest team lost\u201d following their 3-2 win over Southampton in the FA Cup on Wednesday night. Both sides had played out a 1-1 at St Marys, prompting a replay yesterday at White Hart Lane. Spurs took the lead through a Jack Stephens\u2019 own goal, before the visitors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,7644,5319],"class_list":["post-191568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-jose-mourinho","tag-tottenham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}