AS ROME NEWS – Mister Jose Mourinho he presents himself in front of the journalists’ microphones to comment on the performance of his players at the end of Rome-Turin.
Right away all the statements of the Portuguese coach on the championship game played this afternoon at the Stadio Olimpico.
JOSE MOURINHO TO DAZN
What happened on the expulsion?
“Right. Words that deserve red. Then I apologized for my words. But I don’t want to talk about the game and his play as a referee.”
What did you dislike about the referee?
“I already told you I don’t want to talk about it. I deserved the red, I apologized ”.
On the match..
“Which? There was a match up until the 70th minute, and one after that. Until the 70th match, the fans wanted to go home, we don’t play well, we don’t create. Then in 20 minutes we created more than in 70. Why? It’s easy. We are a team with certain limitations. When Paulo doesn’t play, it’s very different for us. How many more points would we have scored with him? The difficulty in building the game is that other teams have 20 wonderful quality players, and we have those who have. The light is there. We have lost the light, and the quality is different. There are players who are at a very low level, and the team needs everyone. Now we have to rest, and prepare for a second retreat. From an individual point of view, for some players it’s time for self-criticism, and I will do the same for myself. We are a united team despite the problems, today it was really difficult: two goals, a missed penalty in the 93rd minute, but the game didn’t die there. And if there were 2 more minutes we could have done more. These are the 20 minutes of hope, of having a Dybala and a Pellegrini together and of a Tahirovic who has been telling you for weeks that he is almost there and that today he has entered a situation of great pressure. There are no millions to spend, but we are united and working. Congratulations to Tahirovic, he made his debut very well ”.
Lacking mentality?
“The mentality is made by the players, most of the players. There is a lot of talk about the club, the environment, the city, the square. In my opinion, not, the mentality is a question of the players.”
Was Belotti the penalty taker?
“No. Who was? I’m not telling you. It’s the kind of situation where you can go wrong, the problem is when you don’t give all you can give. Sometimes it’s you mentally fragile, sometimes it’s you where cheese isn’t a fundamental thing in your life. These are the things that I do not digest. Belotti had the courage to take the ball and make a mistake.”
JOSE’ MOURINHO AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE
This match confirms that Roma are addicted to Dybala, are you worried?
“At the moment when he’s recovered, I’m not worried, but I have hope that he will be able to return well for the second period of the championship. The last 20 minutes are 20 minutes not of surprise, but of hope because Tahirovic will be a great player: as long as I’m here I’ll never stop giving him the chance to develop him because it’s a job that Roma as a club needs, he’s a player in more than over time someone of those who have more stability at the moment will eat. He is a more quality player. Dybala’s situation is obvious: with him for 20′ we had more emotion in the stadium, more goalscoring and everything more. I’ve gone 6 games in a row in the league without him, he’s a lot in this team. And then two games without him and Pellegrini, it’s absurd for us. That’s why I come out hopeful and happy with the attitude of the players in the last few minutes: when you get a post, save, then miss a penalty, the team dies instead the team went to the end to try to change a result. We have our limits but I’m positive about the hope we see in the finale.”
Where is Roma who won a trophy last year without Dybala? Why does the rest of Rome have all these difficulties?
“It is difficult for me to answer. I have the answer for you, if you give me your word that’s left between you, I’ll tell you out. You can not do this? Then I won’t tell you. Think carefully about last year and this year if everything seems the same or if something fundamental is missing”.
Mkhitaryan?
“And someone who is here but not the same.”
Is there a problem with recovering Abraham from a psychological point of view?
“Maybe they are old style but I think that when you become a professional player in a universe of millions of millions of kids who wanted to be, you don’t need anyone’s support, you don’t need an outside source to motivate you. What is this? The coach, the psychologist…but what, you have to give everything on the pitch every day, in every training session, in every match. He plays well, badly, makes mistakes or doesn’t make mistakes. With a player who makes a mistake with me, the only thing I can say is that he’s poor, but he’s wrong. But it’s one thing to get it wrong and another thing is attitude. Your question reflects the game world a bit. But what psychological support, run friend, go there for the individual duel, create problems for Buongiorno… friend, there are millions and millions of children who want to arrive and few arrive, they are privileged. The external source is the plus, but it’s not you coach, psychologist or director who changes a player’s mentality. You are a man. Volpato didn’t play well today, who’s to blame? It’s mine because it’s not a player who can play against a team against Turin because it’s a team that plays manly, aggressive and tough. It’s my fault that he didn’t play well. I changed him to improve the team and to protect him, it’s part of his training. But there are other players who must have a high level, I’m not saying performance, but I’m talking about attitude: you don’t need reasons to go at the end of the month to get your salary, that’s where you go. We must all give more.”
Karsdorp? The decision not to take him to the Olimpico today?
“The decision is mine, mine alone obviously and I don’t have to explain all the decisions I make. He knows why, the comrades know why and I don’t have to tell you why.”
