{"id":234355,"date":"2026-01-08T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234355\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:50:07","slug":"jose-mourinho-benfica-players-stay-at-training-ground-after-braga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234355\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Mourinho: Benfica players stay at training ground after Braga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jose Mourinho took his players to stay at Benfica&#8217;s training ground after they lost against Braga in the League Cup semi-finals &#8211; and the Portuguese manager said he hoped they &#8220;don&#8217;t sleep and instead think a lot&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Benfica lost Wednesday&#8217;s tie 3-1 and ended the game with 10 men when former Manchester City defender Nicolas Otamendi was sent off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mourinho, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c3w54x0qzwvo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appointed manager in September,<\/a> suggested his players would be staying at the club&#8217;s training base in Seixal for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The players will sleep in Seixal, and on Thursday there is training, and the day after there&#8217;s training,&#8221; Mourinho said at a news conference after the Braga defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Since there&#8217;s no final on Saturday, our next game is against Porto next Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When we arrive in Seixal [on Wednesday], everyone will go to their rooms. I hope the players sleep as well as I do, which is to say that they don&#8217;t sleep at all. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s what I wish for them. That they don&#8217;t sleep and instead think a lot, like I&#8217;m going to think.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jose Mourinho took his players to stay at Benfica&#8217;s training ground after they lost against Braga in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-234355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}