Despite Twain's remark that "the players are not men if they lose", he was still worried. He might appear to be confident, but in fact, his inner pressure was no less than anyone else's. One must know that the pressure on the players if they lost the game would only last from the pitch to their home, while the pressure on the manager could last for days. Therefore, he could not be negligent.
In addition to using words to motivate the players, he needed to think of other ways.
The Inter Milan team had already arrived in Nottingham. Mourinho joked in an interview at London's Heathrow airport that he did not think he was competing in an away game because he was very familiar with many things in England. Mourinho's face looked relaxed, and he was smiling into the television cameras. He appeared to have something up his sleeve. And he did not care that the reporters mentioned Nottingham Forest's two away goals in front of him.
