Jose Mourinho again hinted at referees ganging up on Roma, but also turned fire on his players after the 3-2 defeat to Venezia. ‘There are things that stay hidden for years…’
It was another disappointing match for the Giallorossi, who had turned around the early Mattia Caldara goal to lead 2-1, only to then lose 3-2 at the Stadio Penzo.
Roma now have just one win in their last seven competitive matches, losing four of them, picking up just draws with Napoli and Bodo/Glimt.
They had 27 shots on goal, 10 of them on target, but failed to finish the chances.
“We created many opportunities, many half-chances and when you get into dangerous positions and don’t make the right final ball, that is frustrating,” Mourinho told Sky Sport Italia.
“We did it about 20 times, with attacking players like Veretout and Pellegrini near the forwards, but we didn’t make the pass. How is it possible to create so much and then not score?”
Mourinho was again furious with the refereeing, as the penalty awarded to Venezia for the 2-2 draw was not dissimilar to the one not given to Roma against Milan for Simon Kjaer’s intervention.
“We conceded the first goal on a set play that we had practiced yesterday and still got the defending wrong,” noted the coach.
“Another important part of the story is Venezia’s second goal. I have to protect myself here and keep my feelings to myself over what is happening.
“I could’ve talked about the players who should’ve got yellow cards for tactical fouls, those are small details.
“I could say we had many chances to go 3-1 up, above all with El Shaarawy and it’s difficult to miss, but the truth is we were 2-1 up and in control. What happened, for me… I don’t want to say anything else.
“I prefer to just say it was a very, very important moment of the match. That is all.”
He went back onto the issue of referees at the very end of the interview.
“Maybe one day I will understand why certain incidents happen. There are things that stay hidden for years and one day I will understand them…”
Mourinho was asked if Roma were right to aim for a top four finish when their squad might be at best suitable to head for sixth.
“You have your opinion, I have mine. As a coach, I have to give some motivation and ambition to the players and myself. It’s one thing to say we are worthy of fourth place, another to say we want to go for fourth place.
“Until it becomes mathematically impossible, I want to keep saying fourth place is the target. Roma finished sixth or seventh the last few seasons, the club made an effort over the summer, but it was more reactive transfer activity than building.
“I don’t think this squad is stronger than last season. We lost a lot of experience, we had to bring in players to replace those who left, many of them lack experience at this level.
“As a coach with a three-year contract, this season can be a painful one for body and soul, but still a very, very important one for me to understand something I couldn’t have understood before I arrived. I already know more than I did two months ago.”
#Mourinho: “Difficile capire come aver fatto solo due gol. Arbitri? Rimango con le mie sensazioni per non esprimere quello che sta succedendo” #ASRoma https://t.co/Bin9lpfJgS
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Mr. Excuses; he WAS a great coach, but since the last 4-5 years, he has become an average but overconfident one.
I dont want to be conspiracy theorist but i feel this man has already given up..he wants out of rome before he burns whatever reputation remains
This is a real bad result for Roma.
I thought Venezia were going to go right back down but I do believe they will survive even if I think Genoa are the better team. Say nothing of Spezia who will surely survive as well.
He has to go! 😂 he could go to Norwich or Villa? 😂
As always, he lacks respect and humility, it was a very wrong idea to bring him to Roma, his last 4 jobs ended with him burning the house down, even last week against Milan he and his players came out angry, every decision against them they argued and argued,
He needs to be humble, put his head down and work hard, you can never have everything all the time, when a bad hand is dealt to you, you try and see how to work with it, he was not forced into the job, his eyes were wide open when he accepted the job.,…
Roma fan. “what the hell was that”. I thought mourinho was a defensive coach, we defended worse than under zeman, I enjoyed zemanlandia, can’t say I enjoyed that,
I am not blaming Master Tactician. He should not be hired on the first place.
Blame the guy who hired him – Mr. Friedkin !
Friedkin has had an array of unrealized projects, I am afraid that Roma FC is one them.
I enjoy the Game .. but Roma Needs to find Result.. Success is sweeter when Mourihno is your coach
This is Jose. This is not fair. This is not football. This is Italy. Shamefull. Once again and this will be repeated again and again.
Here we go…. Same names commenting on Jose Mourinho/Roma posts. The man comes out w fighting spirit and big talk but it is perceived by todays snowflakes as him wanting out and being disrespectful. Roma is a team needing serious work w no trophies in ages. Calm down snowflakes calm down.
Also, not to defend them, but that was a WEAK PK call for Venezia (against Roma). Some of the officiating in Serie A this year has been real bad.
What kind of a headline that is. The comment is made on him not talking about the refs coz that will penalize him. Nothing to do with the team. He always supports the team. Roma are still 5th not 20th. People need to give jose space. He is not a miracle worker. Let the man work in peace ffs
Our defense just awful ( particular Christante) . Our goalkeeper is below average performer.
Our offense is a maximum “two pass” act with no fluidity . Pelle, Tammy, SES, Nicole , Perez – they just won to score more, than win a game – directly influenced by Master Tactician intrigues with starting line up and substitutions.
This team is going down .
Love Jose soo much i can’t eat my supper evertime his team loses.Champs are always not loved always though.
His famous quote:
“Same coach; Different players”.
Just give him time. Things are not going well at the moment but things can always turn around. Just as they have since the start of the season.
Iam really surprised by how peeps deliberately ignore the fact that referees are being unfair to Roma.