F1 | Pochettino (Tottenham manager): “Our situation is similar to that experienced by Alonso last year”

Mauricio Pochettino, manager of Tottenham, a football team playing in the Premier League, compared the current situation of his team to the last season experienced by Fernando Alonso in Formula One.

Despite the excellent championship played so far, which sees Spurs in second place in the standings, just a few points behind leaders Liverpool, the Argentine coach aspires to something more than second place. Just like the two-time world champion, who said goodbye to the Circus after the Abu Dhabi race held last November 25, he would have wanted to battle for important placings if only he had had a competitive single-seater at his disposal.

"When you work in football you want to win, you can be a winner but if you don't have the tools to win it's difficult to do so – underlined Pochettino -. Just like when a driver has the winning car and manages to win. If you have the car of the good one, then one will win and the other. Let's take the example of Fernando Alonso and compare him to Hamilton: if last season you put Hamilton in McLaren and Alonso in Mercedes the result didn't change. Hamilton was at the bottom of the standings, Alonso at the top".