What Jose Mourinho told Anthony Gordon as elite manager linked with four Magpies stars

Anthony Gordon revealed what Jose Mourinho told him after Newcastle beat Benfica 3-0 in the Champions League, before the elite manager praised the Magpies and their four players.

The Magpies won their second Champions League game of the season on Tuesday night. They thrashed Mourinho’s Benfica 3-0, with a goal from Gordon and a curler from Harvey Barnes.

Gordon Following his goalscoring performance against Latvia and an assist against Benfica, he has maintained that form on England duty during the international break.

After the match, he was seen in conversation with Mourinho, the elite manager of the opposing side. Gordon reveals what the boss told him.

“He said ‘you’re so much,’ which is a huge compliment to me because as a kid, he was my favorite manager in the world,” Gordon said.

“It’s quite strange because he was quite a defensive manager, but I just love the way … Even so, the bench was rising. He really creates a team atmosphere, it’s against the world like ours. I know him from my own game, so it was a huge compliment.

“It means an awful lot. Even if I don’t bust it, any coach’s praise at that level means a lot.”

Mourinho then publicly praised Gordon, as well as three other Newcastle players, as they welcomed the Magpies as a whole.

“First. I wouldn’t call it a transition, but it was a quick attack that (Amar) Dedic lost to the best player on the pitch, who had a great game on the diagonal, Anthony Gordon.”

He added: “That tells me about the level of Newcastle. While the score was open, and I think it was unfairly open, because in the first half the team played well on the pitch, the players felt comfortable in the stadium with a clear atmosphere.

“The threat they posed to us was obviously from anything and everything in the box, because it’s difficult to compete with a team with that physicality, but we had a lot of chances to score, before they scored, we had a beautiful shot by (Dudi) Luke Bacio that hit the post, so I repeat that the result of the first half does not reflect that. is

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“In the second half, we got a goal that we couldn’t afford, a set piece in our favor, where our initial position for the transition was correct, but then we made mistakes in our defensive movement. And when we conceded that goal, the differences in characteristics between the teams came to the fore.

“There’s a team with a high-horsepower engine, a team with a lot of intensity, a team with a lot of speed. Like I said, they have four lightning-fast wingers.

“They don’t have one or two, they have four. And when you change two that come in the 50th or 60th minute, when you change one and then change the other one later, we lost the compact game we had in the first half, we were exposed.”

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