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13-07-2020 | 13:08 Football
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"Like Hamilton winning Formula Two!"- Mourinho compares Europa League to Hamilton winning Formula Two

Jose Mourinho wants to guide Tottenham into the Europa League. However, compared playing in the competition to Lewis Hamilton winning Formula Two. Spurs beat a 2-1 Arsenal in the north London derby on Sunday, climbing into eighth in the table. They boosted their chances of qualifying for European competition. "The Europa League is not the biggest competition in Europe," he told a news conference. "But it's the second and when a club wins the Champions League or when a player wins it or a manager does, well, if you ask Lewis Hamilton if he wants to win Formula Two or 3000 or whatever you call it, I don't think it will be a great deal for him. "But it's a competition and I prefer to play Europa League than not to. I think it's a title Tottenham would like to get. Of course at [Manchester] United, it's a club with a dimension that thinks about the Champions League, but we played in the Europa League and we won it. I think we should do everything to play in the Europa League next season and we should fight for that." Mourinho led United to the Europa League title in 2017, 14 years after winning the UEFA Cup with Porto. "I know that I could even look to the situation in a selfish point of view and say since I arrived if the championship arrived in that moment there, even with all of the problems after that, I think we would be fourth or fifth," he said. "I don't want to be selfish and only look at it as a fan, hypothetically, not yet, finishing above Arsenal. I would love to play in the Europa League. It's not a competition that I'm in love with or like very, very much to play, but when you cannot play Champions League, you play Europa League. "Because in my career I only played Europa League twice and I won it twice, it wouldn't be bad to play a third time and win a third time. We have to fight until the end to try to finish in a Europa League position." Source: Goal

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