Jose Mourinho openly blamed one player for Roma’s 1-1 draw with Sassuolo. ‘The efforts of the team were betrayed by the attitude of one unprofessional player.’
The Giallorossi were held to a stalemate at the Mapei Stadium when Tammy Abraham broke his two-month Serie A goal drought, but Andrea Pinamonti equalised from close range five minutes later.
“We had a good performance, with a positive, professional, serious attitude. The last two days were difficult,” Mourinho told DAZN after Sunday’s 1-0 defeat to Lazio in the Derby della Capitale.
“It was a team that wanted to win against a tough opponent, I am sorry that the efforts of the team were betrayed by the attitude of one unprofessional player. You didn’t see me talking that way about Roger Ibanez against Lazio, because errors are part of the game, his attitude was never a problem.
“An unprofessional attitude that is not fair to his teammates, that is what disappoints me. A point away from home is still not a negative result and I am happy with the general attitude of my squad.”
When asked who had got the wrong attitude and betrayed his teammates, Mourinho refused to say.
“I won’t tell you. I had 16 players on the field tonight and I liked the attitude of 15 of them. I told the other than he had this attitude today only and not always. Now we want to close this period of the season with three points.
“In January, he needs to find himself another club.”
According to the Corriere dello Sport, the player in question was Rick Karsdorp.
Roma were again fairly toothless upfront, missing both Lorenzo Pellegrini and Paulo Dybala, so Cristian Volpato started behind the striker Eldor Shomurodov.
“I cannot ask too much from a child like Volpato who plays for the youth team, I cannot expect him to illuminate everything he touches, but he did well. Obviously, I am happy, he has talent, but I cannot expect him to put the team on his shoulders.”
Abraham broke his two-month goal drought in Serie A when coming off the bench.
“I asked Tammy, why today this attitude and not before? Aside from the goal, he won duels, he put his body in the way, created space, went deep to get the ball. He had a good game.”
my guess would be el sha. . . . he basically did nothing when he came on and look like he could careless.
my second guess would be karsdorp. but I doubt it, he had some good touches outside of his one mental lapse. . .
Or Shomurondov
Karsdorp
Italian media are saying it’s Karsdorp.
It’s Karsdorp.
Please, rewatch the four minutes between Tammy’s goal and Pinamonti’s goal. Rick was seriously out–played.
I blame Mourinho. It was evident that flank was cracking. I predicted a goal coming from Rick’s side. If I saw it, why couldn’t the great Mourinho?
I loved Shomurodov today. He is incredibly fast and would serve this Roma much better than Belotti.
Tammy also scored a great goal among four defenders.
its Karsdorp seriously outplayed on the right ….. we need goal scorers and with consistency – Shomurodov and Belotti are neither .
Hats off to Tammy great goal . hope this lifts his spirits and hope he gets a WC spot.
what are we talking about? Shomurodov was on sale since last transfer window and club couldn’t find a move for him… He started this game and was poor again… Karsdrop made a mistake on the counter but Mancini and Smaling as well as Rui patricio didn’t cover themselves in glory
Shomurodov today produced more dangerous plays than the entire Roma team in matches against Napoli and Lazio.
Nick, rewatch the four minutes.
Remember, Rick only entered the game 20 minutes earlier.
Mourinho is blasting Rick’s attitude, not mistakes.