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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 20672238" data-attributes="member: 158020"><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/D.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" data-shortname=":D" />Dying on the pitch to beat Barcelona – Mourinho’s greatest team talk  Jose Mourinho has won two Champions League titles as manager - with a mix of tactical and psychological know-how - and he gave the team talk of his life for the second of those; ahead of Inter’s 2010 UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg against Barcelona. Inter defied the odds at Camp Nou to edge out Barcelona 3-2 on aggregate and went on to claim a historic treble of Serie A, Coppa Italia and Champions League titles for the first and only time.A late Gerard Pique goal on the night was not enough for a Barca team coached by Pep Guardiola to overturn a 3-1 deficit from the first leg and Inter went on to glory at Santiago Bernabeu against Bayern Munich in the final. The Serie A representatives were heavy underdogs despite their first-leg lead, having lost Thiago Motta to a red card midway through the first half, and Mourinho credits his players’ willingness to sacrifice themselves on the pitch as the key reason behind the win. “It was really one of the most important matches of these players’ lives,” he told Goal. “The semi-final of the Champions League - Barcelona v Inter.“From minute 20 or 25 we played with 10 men. We had to play in Barca for more than one hour with one player less. “To resist and to play with one player less in a Champions League semi-final for so long, I think my talk prepared the players to do what they did - which was ‘if we need to, let’s go to the extreme, if we need to die on the pitch to go to the final we do it for the team’. And the players did an absolutely historical match in their careers.”</blockquote>

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