Mourinho slams refereeing after Chelsea v Benfica: I feel that... | OneFootball

José Mourinho believes that João Pedro should have received a second yellow card much earlier. The Eagles’ coach spoke to Sporttv’s microphones in the usual flash interview, at the end of Chelsea - Benfica, analyzed the Eagles’ performance, and left some criticism for the match referee.

"I won’t beat around the bush, a defeat is always a defeat, no matter how well you play and how undeserved it may be, I don’t want to hide that from my players," José Mourinho began to explain about Chelsea - Benfica.

The Benfica coach continued: "But there are different ways of losing: there’s losing and feeling ashamed the next day, and there’s losing while playing well, doing things right, and feeling that we could have had a different result. And with so little time to train, having things to hold on to...".

Next, José Mourinho praised the team: "I think it was our best game, a very stable team, no defensive problems, no tactical issues. We should have scored, we have to score. Then, from the 75th minute, we had tired players, like Lukebakio and Sudakov, three midfielders on yellow cards in a game that was opening up, and they were very strong in transitions. I made changes to bring in fresh legs. But they had better players on the bench than those who were playing. It’s a team with many options and they held on."

"I have the feeling that João Pedro could have seen a second yellow much earlier, and I remember Florentino’s second yellow in Istanbul. The incident with Otamendi seemed like a second yellow to me. And Chelsea last weekend lost because they played 20 minutes with one man down. If that happened, I think the game would have turned," José Mourinho concluded.

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