MAURICIO Pochettino has admitted he remains unfazed about being touted as Jose Mourinho’s long-term successor at Tottenham’s London rivals Chelsea.
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League Cup finalists Manchester City and Liverpool are both in action, City visiting the Premier League’s bottom club, Aston Villa, and Liverpool hosting West Ham United, who have beaten them twice in the league this season.
Tottenham, fourth in the Premier League, qualified Saturday for the fourth round of the FA Cup by going to crush (4-1) on his land the modest team of Colchester (D3).
“It is a topic in football”.
“He is very young, and now he has more possibility to play”.
“I think that this competition is magic”.
Vertonghen, who is one of the best central defenders in the Premier League, is on the sidelines at the moment with a knee injury.
“(But) the most important thing is to balance the younger (players) with the experience players to create the winning mentality and to have hunger to win titles”.
“The win means a lot”, Pochettino told the BBC after the game. “If you don’t play so much, you can train a lot and work a lot on your fitness”, he said.
“We had other players and he wasn’t my first choice and it is normal that players always want to play”.
“I don’t mind. We are exposed to receive the rumours and we are in a media where everything is about rumours sometimes”. They also let us take some home which is good for me because I live by myself and it means I don’t have to cook for myself.
“They might have a few talented boys who can cause us problems, but I think I have got some talented boys in our squad that can cause them some problems”. “We express ourselves and hopefully we can keep doing that”.
“We’ve had a couple of losses – Newcastle and Leicester at home – but overall those losses have helped us, because every time we’ve reacted and gone on a good run”.
Yet after their two centre halves, Alex Wynter and Tom Eastman, collided early in the game and had to be substituted, the underdogs were outclassed by a strong Spurs side in the first half when a fine Chadli shot put them ahead in the 27th minute. I can take something home and it’s always nice, we have everything we need.
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For Colchester, seven points from safety with 18 games remaining, they have an almighty battle on their hands to retain League One status.
