{"id":330193,"date":"2021-03-22T11:31:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T10:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=330193"},"modified":"2021-03-22T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T10:33:39","slug":"epl-mourinho-speaks-on-next-challenge-after-tottenham-beat-aston-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=330193","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Mourinho speaks on &#8216;next challenge&#8217; after Tottenham beat Aston Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Tottenham Hotspur manager, Jose Mourinho, has said the next challenge is to maintain the high standards in terms of effort, commitment and sacrifice in his team.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho, speaking after their 2-0 win at Aston Villa, wondered why it took two dreadful performances to galvanise them into action.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs lost 2-1 to Arsenal last Sunday, before crashing out of the Europa League after a 3-0 defeat at Dinamo Zagreb.<\/p>\n<p>But goals by Carlos Vinicius and Harry Kane earned three points at Villa, taking Tottenham up into sixth place in the Premier League, just three points behind fourth-placed Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay I am really happy with [the response], but it is sad we need such a bad defeat to have this kind of reaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis should not be a reaction, this should be a permanent state of mind, permanent soul in the team, I think that is our next challenge \u2014 to have this standard in terms of effort, commitment, sacrifice,\u201d Mourinho said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur manager, Jose Mourinho, has said the next challenge is to maintain the high standards in terms of effort, commitment and sacrifice in his team. Mourinho, speaking after their 2-0 win at Aston Villa, wondered why it took two dreadful performances to galvanise them into action. Spurs lost 2-1 to Arsenal last Sunday, before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":330194,"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":[2658,9512,7644],"class_list":["post-330193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-epl","tag-jose-mourinho"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330193","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=330193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/330194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}