Mourinho uses Sporting-Benfica win to dig at Sporting: not by merit | OneFootball

José Mourinho did not miss the chance to, after Benfica’s win over Sporting (2-1), aim a few barbs at the green-and-whites. In the post-match press conference, the Eagles’ coach took a swipe at the refereeing.

"I don’t have a feeling. Sporting play very well, they have an excellent team. Even being here and not wanting to disrespect the home side, I think they had several games this season in which they could quite easily have dropped points. They didn’t, and it wasn’t because of their own merit," he said.

Aside from that, Mourinho also made his stance clear: "I didn’t make any speech. I know it’s a derby, that it was the last bullet we had, I don’t know what the gun part is called... as I said yesterday, even if it were in a tournament in the Algarve, it’s always a derby, it’s different from every other game, but we haven’t won anything. We beat Sporting and nothing more. Tomorrow is a day off, Tuesday we work and on Saturday we play Moreirense."

With this defeat – the eighth in 49 matches this season – Rui Borges’ men remain on 71 points and drop to third place in the Liga Portugal Betclic standings. Porto (79) are in first place (with one more match played). Benfica are second with 72, also having played one more game.

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