José Mourinho has already announced the line-up for Roma‘s next game against Cagliari: ‘the same one as today.’
The Special One isn’t a lover of rotating his squad and Thursday’s Conference League clash against Bodo/Glimt convinced him to limit the use of substitutions from game to game.
Mourinho has only used 22 of his 31 players in Serie A so far this season and the heavy rotation against Bodo/Glimt mid-week led to a historic 6-1 defeat in Norway.
The former Chelsea and Inter boss punished five Roma players who started against Bodo, sending them to the stands against Napoli today.
They are Marash Kumbulla, Amadou Diawara, Riccardo Calafiori, Gonzalo Villar and Borja Mayoral.
Apparently, they can’t expect to return to Roma’sstarting XI anytime soon as Mourinho has already named the line-up for the Giallorossi’snext match against Cagliari.
“It will be the same one as today,” Mourinho said at a post-match press conference, as quoted by Tuttomercatoweb.
During his interview with DAZN, Mourinho also explained why he punished some of his players after the Conference League match in Norway.
“These are messages for the dressing room, that game will remain in my history and for me, it’s difficult to forgive.”
Roma face Cagliari away on Wednesday before hosting Milan at the Stadio Olimpico on Sunday, October 31.