The Tottenham Hotspur manager masterminded a huge Champions League win on Wednesday.
Jose Mourinho offered a brilliant insight into what Mauricio Pochettino would have been feeling after Tottenham Hotspur’s stunning victory on Wednesday night.
Tottenham were trailing 2-0 to Ajax on the night and 3-0 on aggregate with 45 minutes left in their Champions League semi-final in Amsterdam.
But Lucas Moura scored a second-half hat-trick to fire Spurs into the final of Europe’s elite competition, where they meet Liverpool in Madrid on June 1.
Pochettino was visibly emotional after the game, and Mourinho, a two-time winner of the competition with Porto and Inter Milan, says that it was a ‘very normal’ response to what the Tottenham boss and his players achieved.
He told beIN Sport: “Sometimes people, they don’t know how we feel. They don’t know how much it matters for us and the people who love us. Sometimes people just don’t know.
“Sometimes they don’t know what we are behind the scenes. We are normally a very lonely person in that football consumes a lot. I think this is a manifestation of all of that together.
“He thinks about the family, he thinks about the people that he loves, the people that love him. I feel very normal that he is crying.”
Tottenham, who haven’t signed a player in 18 months, are already winners for what they have achieved, but will it count for anything if Liverpool beat them in Madrid?
Jurgen Klopp’s side, who overturned a 3-0 deficit by Barcelona to beat the Spanish side 4-3 on aggregate, were beaten finalists last season, and the Anfield outfit will be determined to go one better this time around.
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