Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho said Tuesday he has faith in officiating in Spain and in Europe despite his heavy criticisms of them this season.<\/p>\n
Mourinho refused to take part in his obligatory post-match press conference on Saturday after Real Madrid beat Villarreal 1-0 in LaLiga, in protest at a decision to rule out a goal scored by Vinicius Junior and then send off the Brazil international for hair-pulling.<\/p>\n
After a league derby defeat against Atletico Madrid, Mourinho brandished printed pictures of challenges in the game he thought the Rojiblancos should have been punished for.<\/p>\n
However, ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League clash at Roma, Mourinho tried to avoid controversy.<\/p>\n
“I trust all the referees… whether it’s the league or Champions League, before the game I always have the best feelings about the referees,” Mourinho told reporters.<\/p>\n
“I have confidence and I hope everything goes well for all three teams (both sides and the officials) — I don’t have any negative feelings.”<\/p>\n
Mourinho said he might expand more on the subject when back in the Spanish capital.<\/p>\n
“There are Italian media here that are more interested in the match than in that kind of thing,” added the veteran coach.<\/p>\n
“You’ll have me (speaking) again on Saturday, I think it’s best if we move on to something else.”<\/p>\n
Madrid midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni, also speaking before the Roma clash, said the squad was not happy with calls that had gone against them.<\/p>\n
“I don’t want to speak about the referees… right now we have a lot of frustration with the decisions,” said Tchouameni.<\/p>\n
Mourinho, 63, led Roma between 2021-2024, winning the Conference League with the Italian side in 2022 and finishing runners-up in the Europa League the following year.<\/p>\n
Mourinho said Roma fans were “special people” and looked back fondly on his days in the city.<\/p>\n
“It’s not as if we won the Champions League… but we did win a European competition, we played a second European final in two years, and I think everything came together,” added Mourinho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho said Tuesday he has faith in officiating in Spain and in Europe despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-646029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}