While Tottenham’s late comeback against Ajax will go down in folklore, Mauricio Pochettino’s half-time team that night certainly won’t.
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So many great fightbacks are prefaced by rousing dressing room speeches but that night there was very little fanfare to spark the scenes that followed.
Speaking to BT Sport, Pochettino revealed that all he did at the interval in Amsterdam was reinforce simple messages of keeping calm and believing.
This is fascinating…
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It might be Poch’s rusty English, but this recap is little but verbal diarrhoea. Whatever the half-time message was, Lucas Moura heard it loud and clear.