Mourinho appreciated the defeat of Benfica in the match where Sudakov and Trubin played

Head coach of the Portuguese “Benfica” Jose Mourinho commented on the defeat of his team in the Champions League against the German “Bayer” with a score of 0:1.

The players of the national team of Ukraine – goalkeeper Anatoly Trubin and midfielder Georgy Sudakov – were in the starting lineup of the Eagles.

“The key episode was all the moments that we created, but did not realize. It started very early on and continued for almost the entire game.

We had 21 shots on goal, not all of them were on target, but four or five were great moments. All this happened in the context of the team playing very well with the ball, without the ball, and of course having some difficulties during the opposition. However, Benfica controlled the game, were very good in the first and second phases, and then got to the goal and missed.

It hurts me because a player who was playing great makes a mistake that leads to a goal and from that moment on, despite all our efforts to motivate and calm him down, the team has gone even further. We are not very strong in the second floor game, we did not have a lot of free space. I am extremely disappointed with the result, but very pleased with the progress of the team and the quality of the game.

Defeat is painful, but there is no turning back. I told the players… “If we replay this match and the game goes the same way as before: we will score goals and win nine times out of ten.

Today we deserved to win. There are 12 points left to play, we don’t need 12 to qualify, somewhere around nine should be enough. It’s tough, Napoli, Ajax, Real Madrid and Juventus, but we have two games left in the calendar year and if we get 6 points, we’re in the race.

No, I don’t want to discuss the gameplay too much. I don’t like protesting just for the sake of protesting, but all this unsportsmanlike behavior they’ve shown…when multiple teams are unsportsmanlike, there’s only one person to blame. The fault is not the coach of the opponent, not the players, but the referee.

When a foul occurs, they simply stop the game. This saddens me. Unfortunately, I know this judge well; I know he doesn’t treat me very well, and I don’t treat him too well, but I don’t think we lost because of the referee.”