'The best team lost': Mourinho takes aim at Klopp after Liverpool snatch top spot

[mawspurs]

José Mourinho claimed the “best team lost” after Roberto Firmino’s late header at Anfield gave Liverpool a 2-1 victory against Tottenham to take the champions top of the Premier League.

Source: Guardian

 

[WhiteHeartLowe]

No, they didn't.

 

[Metalhead]

No, they didn't.

It doesn't really matter anyway. You don't get points for being the better team and losing. I'm not having a go at Jose - it's up to him what he says but had we won yesterday, I wouldn't really have cared if we deserved to or not.

 

[Twizzle]

Sometime I wish he would just shutup and take it on the chin, he comes across as a bad loser sometimes.

 

[Matthew Wyatt]

He truly believes the best team lost and Klopp believes it’s possible but believes more in his own interpretation of Pool being the best team. They respect each other’s idea of what constitutes the ‘best team’ because they’re brilliant managers at the top of their game who understand that constant jostling to be the best is what it’s all about and is endless. That’s what I think, but I don’t know which was the better team because I’m not a brilliant manager at the top of my game.

 

[jay2040]

Sometime I wish he would just shutup and take it on the chin, he comes across as a bad loser sometimes.

The thing about having a winners mentality that would not let him do that.

 

[jay2040]

No, they didn't.

I support Spurs and believe that they are better than Liverpool so I can relate to that!

 

[popstar7]

Jose's trying to instill a style of play which is unfamiliar to pretty much any member of this squad, not to mention the supporters. The thing we keep hearing is that the players have 'bought into it'. His post-match talk before the Firmino header went in is 'it works. you come to Anfield every time you lose. not with me.' Then suddenly it's gone. We've lost. So what does he say? He says the better team lost. It's a message to the squad to keep the faith, keep buying in, this is the way we're going to win things.

To me it's not saying something to distract from the result or to wind up Jurgen Klopp. It's a direct message to the players: I know what I'm doing, we were the better team and we should have won. Keep doing what I tell you to do and we will win. This is how you get players to run through brick walls for you. When they're down you show absolute faith in them and in yourself.

 

[Freddie]

Jose's trying to instill a style of play which is unfamiliar to pretty much any member of this squad, not to mention the supporters. The thing we keep hearing is that the players have 'bought into it'. His post-match talk before the Firmino header went in is 'it works. you come to Anfield every time you lose. not with me.' Then suddenly it's gone. We've lost. So what does he say? He says the better team lost. It's a message to the squad to keep the faith, keep buying in, this is the way we're going to win things.

To me it's not saying something to distract from the result or to wind up Jurgen Klopp. It's a direct message to the players: I know what I'm doing, we were the better team and we should have won. Keep doing what I tell you to do and we will win. This is how you get players to run through brick walls for you. When they're down you show absolute faith in them and in yourself.

You're spot on. They'll be happy to play like this in big games while it works, but the thing with the league at the moment is half the teams are 'big games', and this style is a self-fulfilling prophecy- it only works as long as there is belief from the players in it. If we fall away from the leaders I wonder if a team with an array of such such attacking potential begin to show their frustrations. It's therefore imperative that we win something this season

 

[Shadydan]

Sometime I wish he would just shutup and take it on the chin, he comes across as a bad loser sometimes.

Show me a good manager who loses gracefully.

 

[Twizzle]

Show me a good manager who loses gracefully.

 

[Shadydan]

@Twizzle