'I did not like my team today': Jose Mourinho slams his 'lazy' Tottenham flops as they start Premier League season with a home defeat by Everton
Jose Mourinho branded his players 'lazy' and
blamed their abject opening weekend defeat to Everton on a lack of intensity.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin's soaring 55th minute header was enough to give Carlo Ancelotti's side their first win away to a top six club since December 2013, ending a run of 40 matches.
Everton, for whom new signing James Rodriguez excelled, dominated
throughout but Mourinho claimed Tottenham's disjointed preparations attributed
to a wretched performance.
Mourinho said: 'That is a consequence of bad
fitness, bad pre-season.
'Some players didn't even have a pre-season. Some players had a wrong
state of mind. I did not like my team today.
'We did not have the physical condition, we had no intensity. Harry Kane
has trained with us once. Moussa Sissoko just twice. For different reasons,
players have not been able to train.
'We had cases of positive coronavirus tests, we had other players who had to quarantine, other players away with the national team.'
He added: 'I would say it was lazy pressure and when you have lazy
pressure you don't press, you let opponents build from the back.'
Ancelotti, by contrast, was thrilled saying: 'Our target is to fight to
reach the European positions and we have started well.
'The problem we had last season was that we were up and down.'
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