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| Mourinho: "The important thing is that we won and we deserved it" |
| JAN |
| 6 |
Jose Mourinho appeared for the media after the first match of the year. The Portuguese coach
praised his team’s 4-3 win against Real Sociedad and referred to the message that he gave to
his players at half-time:
"In the dressing room I told the players that when you’re playing with 10 you cannot go down to
nine. Everyone has to participate, defend and be compact.
When your team plays with one less, the crowd are usually more on your side. When you
score, the crowd know they want to win with one player less and they conveyed this feeling to
the fans.
The important thing is that we won and we deserved to win".
Real Madrid had to play a man down from the fifth minute following Adan’s sending-off.
Mourinho said the following about the passage of play: "I have not seen it on TV. I think that
Varane left Adan in a complicated situation with his feet and he made a pass that he did not
have to do. So I think that Adan had to decide to get the ball out of the danger zone and made
a bad pass to Carvalho.
From there we lost the ball then came the penalty. I think that it should have been a penalty,
but we had one or two players between Adan and the goal line. It similar to things that have
happened this season.
When we are penalised by decisions, we are penalised by the bad ones and the dubious
ones.
With this one, I could be wrong, and I give the benefit of the doubt to the referee, but my
feeling is that in another ground, with another team it would be a yellow card".
praised his team’s 4-3 win against Real Sociedad and referred to the message that he gave to
his players at half-time:
"In the dressing room I told the players that when you’re playing with 10 you cannot go down to
nine. Everyone has to participate, defend and be compact.
When your team plays with one less, the crowd are usually more on your side. When you
score, the crowd know they want to win with one player less and they conveyed this feeling to
the fans.
The important thing is that we won and we deserved to win".
Real Madrid had to play a man down from the fifth minute following Adan’s sending-off.
Mourinho said the following about the passage of play: "I have not seen it on TV. I think that
Varane left Adan in a complicated situation with his feet and he made a pass that he did not
have to do. So I think that Adan had to decide to get the ball out of the danger zone and made
a bad pass to Carvalho.
From there we lost the ball then came the penalty. I think that it should have been a penalty,
but we had one or two players between Adan and the goal line. It similar to things that have
happened this season.
When we are penalised by decisions, we are penalised by the bad ones and the dubious
ones.
With this one, I could be wrong, and I give the benefit of the doubt to the referee, but my
feeling is that in another ground, with another team it would be a yellow card".
