Mourinho on why he slept at Tottenham training ground

Jose Mourinho has acknowledged the fact that he never took Tottenham Hotspur’s midweek defeat at Old Trafford lightly, hence slept at the club’s training ground.

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Mourinho’s 100 percent win record since taking over at Spurs came to an end with a 2-1 loss against his former club Manchester United.

However, he has not given up but decided to a plan better for the games ahead.

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Tottenham Hotspur coach Jose Mourinho (Image: Managing Madrid)

“I slept in here (the training ground), I stayed here, I didn’t go home, so the next morning at eight o’clock I was here doing what? Burnley,” SuperSport quoted Mourinho.

“Analysing Burnley, trying to organise the training session, trying to organise the meeting, choosing the clips to show them the most clear possible way Burnley works.

“That’s the way you have to do it in football. Don’t accept in a passive way.”

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Stunned Mourinho, following Tottenhams defeat (Image: 90MAAT)

The defeat to United came subsequent to two league victories over West Ham and Bournemouth, in addition to progression to the last 16 of the Champions League.

Now, Mourinho has coached his squad how to respond to a defeat.

“After a defeat you cannot be sad. You have to be more than that. You have to be raging, angry, not sad,” said the 56-year-old.

“Sad is grief. It’s death. When you lose somebody, you have to be sad, you have to be grieving, you have to be crying.

“There is no solution against that, you lost that person. A football match, you lose one, tomorrow there is another one.

“Accept defeat as a learning process, next game, work the next day.”