Garth Crooks has praised Jose Mourinho for unleashing Tottenham Hotspur’s new-look front four on the Premier League.
In his weekley BBC Sport column, the former Spurs striker named Lucas Moura in his Team of the Week following his “beauty” of a goal at Molineux.
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The Brazilian was often the odd man out under Mauricio Pochettino, and Crooks believes that Mourinho is being rewarded for his “audacity” in playing Lucas alongside Harry Kane, Dele Alli and Son Heung-min.
“Watching Moura, Harry Kane, Son Heung-min and Dele Alli all in the same line-up and away from home is audacious and brilliant and the difference between Jose Mourinho and Mauricio Pochettino,” Crooks wrote.
A lot of people expected that Mourinho’s initial impact would be to secure us defensively, but he has actually released the offensive shackles.
Dele Alli has been the main beneficiary of this, but Lucas has also been a success story with three goals in five Premier League starts.
Being left out of the Champions League final line-up, in the circumstances, must have been a crushing blow to the 27-year-old, but Mourinho has helped restore his confidence, and that of several of his teammates.
Sorry that was meant to be Sarcasm, I blame ENIC for all our Woes.
I meant on the pitch
Depends how much you want to deflect criticism away from enic I suppose.
I’ve seen his work on the bbc football site. Incredible he gets paid for it. Fair play to him.
Winning and also improving.. Its no good winning a mickey mouse cup or fa cup only for everything to capitulate a year later.. I want stability, a strong squad with strength in depth, challenging on all fronts… Truely challenging to win the prem and CL, to be formidable for many years to come… We got kane, we got maureen… Everyone knows we are a ‘few’ world class players away from being as good as liverpoo and city and the best in europe.. And we dont have the same strength on the bench.
Poch bashing, how good is that?
For me Garth can say whatever he likes. I’ve seen his work live with hoddle.
Prepare yourself for change.
Garth exemplifies the pundit who alters his entire perspective on clubs and individual players based on the last result. If spurs lose at home to chelsea next weekend stand by for a classic 180 knee jerk, telling mourinho what he doesn’t understand about football / what he needs to learn from Francis Lampard.
In fairness with poch over except this year we were killing all these teams. Top 4 every year except the first. Jose is here to better that. The only way he can do that is by winning something and for me until we manage that nothing has changed