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Jose Mourinho has told football.london exactly how he's utilised his first full, uninterrupted week with his Tottenham Hotspur players.

Since the new Spurs boss arrived last month he has had to face a game every few days with midweek fixtures galore.

However, ahead of the visit of his former side Chelsea and his old player Frank Lampard, Mourinho has had a full week after the dramatic win at Wolves to get down to business.

He gave the players two days off to recover after the tough fixture at Molineux but has balanced that up by working his players hard since to instil some of his key prinicples.

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When asked what different things he had worked on this week, Mourinho explained to football.london: "The intensity of the ideas because the ideas we always tried to bring them to the training pitch.

"When I say ideas I say obviously the tactical ideas, but one thing is to do it with lower intensity because you played yesterday or you play tomorrow. You don't even do it with proper opposition, you do it with passive opposition.

"In this moment, in this week was the first week where we managed to do it also using the physical adaptations and we work at the intensity we like to work at which is an intensity very very high because this is the way we try to play either defensively or offensively."

He added: "So it was fundamentally about that and between January, February I think we are going to have a couple more weeks like that unless we have some FA Cup replays to play and then we interrupt one of these weeks but if we don't have draws in our match against Middlesbrough and eventually in the next round if we win then we are going to be fine because we will have more weeks to work."

Mourinho is hoping that bit by bit this Tottenham team improves and that they show the fruits of their labour and explained that every game they play is a step in their education.

"I hope the team improves. I think we are improving step by step but fundamentally we are improving more with the matches we play than the training sessions we have," he said.

"The matches are what's bringing us to do the correct things, to do mistakes, analyse the mistakes, to go over the mistakes which of course we did since I arrived.

"Another thing is to have a training week to work so I would be disappointed if the team doesn't answer well to the quality they gave me because they gave me lots of quality and commitment, and desire in this week of work."