Mourinho blames referee for errors in Benfica v Leverkusen clash | OneFootball

José Mourinho believes that the referee of the match was responsible for the opponents' time-wasting tactics. The Clube da Luz took to the field this Wednesday, November 5th, to face Bayer Leverkusen. The team in red was defeated 1-0, and at the end of the match, the Portuguese coach spoke to the Sporttv microphones in the usual flash interview.

The Portuguese coach made some criticisms of the match referee for the way he decided to control the game: "I don't want to discuss much, I was far away, I don't want to protest for the sake of protesting. But all the time-wasting they did... There's only one person to blame, and that's the referee".

"It's hard to see the referee give a yellow card to the goalkeeper in the first half. Then there's a foul, they throw themselves to the ground, stop the game...", continued José Mourinho, who did not overlook the referee's passivity regarding the constant pauses by the Germans, especially when they were ahead on the scoreboard.

The Benfica coach continued, revealing that he has a history with the match referee and that, despite everything, he does not want to comment on possible incidents. Thus, he focused only on the referee's inability, in his opinion, to control Bayer Leverkusen's time-wasting.

"Game incidents, I won't go there. We all have responsibilities for the quality of the game, and the ugly part of the game today, the blame is not on Leverkusen, it's on the referee, whom I know well, he doesn't have much passion for me, nor I for him. But we didn't lose because of that, we lost because we didn't score," concluded José Mourinho.

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