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Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino

Pochettino: Resounding win proves I was right to rest Tottenham players

With one eye on the midweek Champions League clash against Man City, the Spurs manager opted to shuffle his pack this afternoon.

MAURICIO POCHETTINO FELT Tottenham’s resounding 4-0 Premier League win over Huddersfield Town on Saturday vindicated his decision to rest players ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League tie with Manchester City.

Already without the injured Harry Kane and Dele Alli, Pochettino opted to start with Son Heung-min, Danny Rose and Toby Alderweireld on the substitutes’ bench.

It mattered little in the end as Spurs cruised past the already relegated Terriers thanks to Victor Wanyama’s first Premier League goal of the campaign and a superb hat-trick from Lucas Moura.

Many were surprised that Son did not start the game, but Pochettino believes he was fully justified in resting the South Korean ahead of the quarter-final, second leg in Manchester.

“We wanted to provide the team with fresh legs because of the big effort against City,” he told Sky Sports.

It’s not easy because everyone has an opinion. After the game, we can see that the decision was right.”

Tottenham Hotspur v Huddersfield Town - Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Lucas Moura was the star as his hat-trick helped Tottenham to a 4-0 win over relegated Huddersfield. Adam Davy Adam Davy

Hat-trick hero Lucas, meanwhile, is confident that Spurs can successfully defend their 1-0 aggregate lead against Pep Guardiola’s side in midweek.

“Now we have a good battle in Manchester, we need from now to recover for this game and prepare very well,” he said.

“It will be so hard there but if we play like we did today we can go there and get a good result and we can qualify.”

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    Apr 13th 2019, 5:06 PM

    Lucas is some player on his day. If he shows some consistency he’ll be as important as Son

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    Apr 13th 2019, 5:10 PM

    @John: As a Liverpool supporter I feel like son is going to get even better as well. I’d Put money on him to be player of the season within the next 2 years.

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    Apr 13th 2019, 5:22 PM

    @Nathan Mawhinney: even just from a marketing perspective that could happen. I don’t mean to take anything away from him though, too class player.

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    Apr 13th 2019, 8:00 PM

    @John: Son is a joy to watch doesn’t get the credit he deserves if he was English everyone would be goin mad about him underrated

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