Jose Mourinho reveals his two favourites to win the Europa League

Jose Mourinho believes Manchester United and Tottenham are the 2 favourites to triumph the Europa League this season.

United person begun their Europa League run with draws against FC Twente and Porto and are looking to unafraid their archetypal triumph successful this season’s contention against Mourinho’s Fenerbahce successful Turkey connected Thursday evening.

Tottenham, meanwhile, person registered victories against Qarabag FK and Ferencvaros, which gives them a beardown alteration of securing an automatic spot successful the knockout phase.

Mourinho, who won the Europa League with United successful 2017, has defended the performances by Erik 10 Hag’s broadside successful Europe this word and the 61-year-old feels his 2 formers clubs are successful the champion presumption to triumph the tournament.

‘They [United] didn’t win, they didn’t suffer and successful this format wherever everybody tries to fig retired what we request but cipher knows, I deliberation each constituent you get is ever a hard point,’ Mourinho said.

‘To play successful Porto is not easy, to get a constituent successful Porto is not casual for anybody.

‘We besides played against Twente, of course, the satellite expects Man United to bushed twente astatine Old Trafford but it was a hard game.

‘What I tin accidental is 1 happening are the results that Manchester United are having and different happening is the imaginable of the team. The imaginable of the squad is high, I deliberation the 2 draws successful the Europa League doesn’t favour america but besides doesn’t marque a immense difference.

‘At the extremity of the day, this caller format volition ever let that the apical teams are going to qualify. No occupation for a apical squad to suffer 3 oregon 4 matches retired of 8 due to the fact that past they volition triumph 3 oregon four, they volition marque 12 points easy and they qualify, truthful I deliberation they are successful a unchangeable situation.

‘If I person to accidental present which are the 2 biggest candidates to triumph the Europa League, I deliberation it’s casual – Man United and Tottenham.

‘The Premier League is simply a antithetic level of quality, it’s a antithetic level of intensity, it’s a antithetic level of pace, it’s a antithetic level of tactical culture, it’s a antithetic level of everything.

‘I deliberation time we are going to play against 1 of the 2 strongest teams.’

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