ESPN FC’s Sid Lowe and Alejandro Moreno recall Jose Mourinho’s Inter Milan squad taking down Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona juggernaut in the 2010 Champions League semifinal. Lowe says Inter’s win was Mourinho’s audition for the Real Madrid job and started the «good vs. evil» battle between Guardiola and Mourinho. Moreno thinks Inter’s victory led to changes in Guardiola’s demeanor down the line and added fuel to the rivalry between him and Mourinho.
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why do these people forget they beat barca 3-1 in first leg(The best team in the world?)……and in 2nd leg they were down to 10 men ofcourse they defended after tht??
Why is Moreno hating, the most he’s done is play in a shitty mls league come on now.
Mourinho works when no player is bigger than the team. He was succesful at United and Real but nowhere near as succesful earlier in his career. That's why I think he might do very well at Spurs.
Why would you label this Good vs Evil? Football is the beautiful game and there is more than one way to win a football match. Respect Mourinho please.
Didn't really realize that Moreno's. mouth is half his farce. The lighting highlights this in an almost grotesque way.
ESPN still pissed Mou went to Sky
Pep dumping Eto for Zlatan was probably his biggest mistake.
Also Maicon > Alves.
I'm beginning to realize that I watch this channel for the same reason you look at an awful car accident as you go past… And I am going to stop.
Calling Jose "Evil" is pathetic. How many "questionable" ref decisions have Barca had at the back of their success… Why are they not "evil"?
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We Pep and Mourinho it sometimes comes down to what you want in football. Mourinho is a win at all cost manager while Pep cares about how you win. Personally, I love Pep but respect Jose. Both have won a lot but Pep is also almost 8 years younger. Check out our debate on this topic on our youtube channel FAMI TV. Keep up the great content lads!
So if you beat Barca and knock them out you are evil? When will we in football actually fucking grow up and stop attaching morality to football styles and strategies defending against a better team doesn’t mean ur evil or cynical to claim Jose is evil! You guys are a disgusting disgraceful bunch I have honestly never seen you ever talk positively or even objectively about Jose this is just so stupid defending isn’t evil and the good vs evil honestly this is insulting not just to Jose but to real neutral smart football fans everywhere and how is Jose evil, Barca cheated by getting motta sent off after busquets divide and then them insulting Jose and his team by turning on the sprinklers in a disgraceful way so who is evil and who is good in this scenario you biased morons
To Be Jose Mourinho's Player , You Have To Be A Lion And A Humble Apprentice at the same time.
Inter were pretty poor in the group stages of the competition, but then in the knockout out stages beat Chelsea who went on to win the Premier League and FA Cup home and away, the reigning champions Barcelona who went on to defend their La Liga title with 99 points, and Bayern who won the Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal and like them were also going for the treble. That was impressive.
Does these folks really have anything to talk about beside Mourinho?
Everyone who says Inter played defensive football has only seen the second leg at Camp Nou and that was because they were down to ten men. Inter destroyed Barca in the first leg and should have scored 5 goals. And the final was a easy win for Inter. Bayern had no chance!
Trashy narrative that José is the “evil”and pep always gets the god like sentiment, if you give pep what Mourinho had to work with from the beginning till now I don’t think he would have anywhere near José’s success
Jose was a PE teacher for crying out loud
next year 2-0 ucl semifinal barca vs real madrid one of the best in history
Ale is burning from inside
Biased ESPN.. defines these pundits.
Well actually Barca did get a second goal that was cancelled for no reason
Everyone report the video bad content
Evil? Who did you call evil? The man who beat Barcelona become evil now .WOW
F*ck Dan & Moreno, they have the most punchable faces on TV. Mourinho is Evil? Who writes this stuff? ESPN FC a fecking joke. Jose Mourinho is one of the all time greatest managers ever, tiki-taka or possession football whatever you want to call does not guarantee trophies. Jose proved it, show me a pretty girl and I'll show you a guy that is tired of having her.
You know I was wide awake last night at 4am and randomly remembered how everybody was already crowning Liverpool champions by December and nobody but Gab would budge… kept saying that it’s not over till it’s over and that anything can happen. LOOOOOOOL Gab is secretly behind this Coronavirus… the man deserves a raise
Inter won with refree in 1st game
No one is going to mention the fact that Barcelona actually scored a legitimate second goal at the Camp Nou, which would have sent them through… but the referee came up with some BS call to deny the goal? Everyone would have been talking a different story regarding his "tactics" had they been eliminated. When it works, you're a "genius", when it doesn't, you're a "fool"
Inter Lost Because Pep refused to keep Eto’o…Chelsea lost because of Cech he was amazing Atletico lost because not enough attacking prowess and cracked under the pressure Juve psychological loss team appeared unfit after PSG 6-1 Roma Deep psychological loss team appeared to be getting old and lacking motivation Liverpool Psychological loss team appeared to have regained competitiveness only to crack under the pressure again. There are deep psychological issues in Barcelona and having the best players in the world doesn’t mean anything if they continue to have that problem. They have to accept that they can lose in order to accept that they must fight to win. I still love them though
Evil…so busquets diving and looking at the ref as he faking is good now.
Can we talk about that time in 1978?
Truth is footballers nowadays have no character. Mourinho has always relied on characters to win trophies, Cambiasso, eto'o, Frank lampard, Ricardo carvalho, essien, absolute fighters that see the means to an end. Nowadays footballers are rich whinging babies with no morals and no self determination. They follow the money and the media. Pogba, martial etc… They actually believe they're bigger than clubs, and that has been mourinho's second problem with the media being his first one. Anyone who understand football without relying on the media to formulate their opinion will know what I mean.
Would have been great if they actually talked about the games a bit more, not just go off on their own tangents. In the second leg you could say barca were in fact the evil.
Didn’t inter score an offside goal… and wasn’t bojan’s disallowed for hands even though it hit toure(?) in the stomach? Barcelona would’ve gone through on 1 goal up difference right? (2-2 instead of 3-1 at inter and 1-0 in barcelona)
Now make a video on barca vs Chelsea CL.Debate on why Guardiola won only 1 CL title coz the other one they cheated their way to the title.
The game was won in Milan with horrific officiating
give mourinho credit. that barcalona side were amazing if there was a way to beat them, that was it. you can't expect anybody to play attacking football aganist that barca and win.
6:20 A book named "ESPN: BIASED". Speaks a lot about Nicol
Who is the evil here, definitely not mourinho.
What an embarrassing headline.
And sid is absolutely talking bollocks here.
Sid has a book called ESPN:BIASED :')
One won ucl with porto the other couldnt win ucl with the best team in germany and england
Good vs Evil? You guys are pathetic.
Did he just say 'pep eliminated inter Milan to go to the final'?
does sid read youtube comments and print viewers opinion as use as a book cover? "ESPN: BIASED", "Yes, we hate your teams" !!! really, nice books !!!
hate how jose is always painted as evil. guardiola is excellent obviously. both winners (both better certainly than loserpool flippity flopp) but give jose his due