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It’s fair to say the Inter manager is pleased to have masterminded his team’s return to the Champions League after a seven-year absence. “I won’t hide the fact that getting this massive club back to where it belongs after so many years is something that I’m particularly proud of,” he said. “I don’t think I have ever had a team with as much quality as the one I have now at Inter. This is a competition you wouldn’t swap for anything in the world. You experience truly wonderful emotions. After you’ve been in it, you can’t go without it.”
His approach tonight? “We need to go and take the initiative; we’re at home,” he said. “They have lots of weapons: skill and physicality … we’re capable of putting out a team that has the potential to live up to what is needed from a team such as Inter.”
On his squad selection: “We have a lot of games coming up,” said the Tottenham manager. “We came from difficult circumstances with the World Cup. We have a plan to give different players a rest in all competitions. In the end no name is more important than another. The most important is the collective. Everyone is available to give their best and, of course, we need to try to give our best.”
And then, this: “It is like a cow that, every day in 10 years, sees the train cross in front at the same time,” he said. “If you ask the cow, ‘What time is the train going to come?’, it is not going to know the right answer. In football, it is the same.”
Written by Barry Glendenning
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2018/sep/18/internazionale-v-tottenham-hotspur-champions-league-group-b-live under the title “Internazionale v Tottenham Hotspur: Champions League Group B – live!”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
