Mourinho’s Tottenham zoomed into the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup after brushing off Championship side, Stoke City, on Wednesday evening.
The 1-3 win moves them closer to a first major trophy since they ;last lifted the League Cup, in 2008.
On-loan winger, Gareth Bale, was given a start by gaffer, Jose Mourinho, and immediately repaid the faith placed on him by heading in the first goal of the game to put his side ahead.
However, in the second half, Stoke equaled matters when Jordan Thompson finished past Spurs goalie, Hugo Lloris.
Ben Davies and Harry Kane put the game beyond Stoke‘s reach with goals in the 70th and 81st minute.
The game’s low point came through ‘outcast’, Dele Alli, who was to blame for Stoke’s equaliser after his audacious flick was intercepted and turned over for a Stoke attacking move that led to Jordan Thompson’s goal.
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The mistake provided an animated touchline response from Mourinho who was left livid and openly rebuked the player.
The no-nonsense coach took off the culprit a couple of minutes after to drive home his point.
Mourinho’s open lambasting of the English international soon became a major talking point in the football community.
“Yes, for me a player that plays in that position is a player that has to link and create and not to create problems for his own team,” Mourinho said.
“In that situation, an objective counter-attack would probably end with a goal, and it ended with a counter-attack behind our defenders.
“We were unbalanced because when you are in possession you have full-backs out wide and another midfielder in a different line and they caught us in a counter-attack and they transformed the result of the game that was totally in our hands. So yes I am upset,” he blasted.
Alli’s last start came on November 26 and the player is tipped for a move to French giants, Paris St. Germain, after been frozen out of the first team, this term.
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