Chris Wilder wants Antonio Conte to continue his wild touchline ways.
The Spurs boss faces a tough trip to promotion chasing Boro on Tuesday night, a week on from his post-defeat rant at Burnley.
Conte showed all his passion that night, questioning his own future after four defeats in five games, just days after going ballistic with joy on the touchline after beating Manchester City.
With managers being ever more controlled and calculating, Wilder is in the camp of showing emotion, and living the success and frustrations of management out in public.
Conte will need his players to be fired up to overcome Boro who disposed of Manchester United in the FA Cup fourth round.
The ex Sheffield United boss said: “What you always see when you see Antonio is an incredible amount of passion, speaking his mind, speaking from the heart. Saying it as it is.
“He finds it difficult not to be himself, which for me is how people want to see it.
“You are damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. If you are just stood there when a goal goes in and just go “well done brilliant”, you get battered.
“I love watching his team play and his connection with his players and enthusiasm and passion on the sidelines.
“When he went to Man CIty and got that late win, that reaction on the bench! He is here to win.”
Wilder has challenged his defence to improve after the weekend defeat to Barnsley dented their push for the top six.
Former England U21 defender Dael Fry helped shut-out Cristiano Ronaldo in the last round and now has a job to do on Harry Kane.
Wilder says performance levels will have to be raised from the weekend. He added: “Kane and Son are incredible players. Ability, work ethic, top of the game for years and deserve respect. That is why they are world class players.
Dael will have to do better than he did against (Barnsley striker) Carlton Morris on Saturday, no disrespect to Carlton. You are going up a level. So he has to. Everybody.
“They have defended better. We will have to defend with our lives on Tuesday and they have shown they can hang in there to go through.
“We did that at Old Trafford. We must have had a structure and better attitude there and more discipline towards our defending.
“We’ll need that on Tuesday night. Dael will have to produce a top performance. He wants to play at that level. We want to be at that level.
“We want to be talking about Dael Fry against Cristiano Ronaldo, Dael Fry against Harry Kane, but just as importantly Dael Fry against Carlton Morris.
“He has to show it, and he has. We have to do better and it is a big test for us all, and the back five.”
