Jose Mourinho singled out just just one of his Roma players as he gave a damning write-up-mortem following the Serie A’s dismal 2- defeat to Slavia Prague in Thursday evening’s Europa League clash.
The Roman facet had been not able to go very clear at the best of Group G soon after a tricky night in Czechia that observed the dwelling side set away two 2nd-50 percent objectives devoid of reply.
On the getting finish of the identical rating in the Eternal Metropolis, Slavia Prague were being untested by Mourinho’s gamers in a effectiveness which their head mentor explained as missing ‘everything’ needed to have earned a win.
The end result sees the two groups tied at the top of the group, with Roma put second on intention variation.
Mourinho experienced no curiosity in sugarcoating the general performance in his write-up-match remarks, with only Edoardo Bove escaping team criticism.
Jose Mourinho experienced pretty much almost nothing constructive to say about Roma’s Europa League efficiency
The Giallorossi shed 2- to Slavia Prague on the road as the prospect to major the team slipped from their grasp
But the previous Chelsea head mentor took time to praise the work of 21-12 months-old Edoardo Bove
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‘I really don’t want to talk substantially. The players’ conclusion not to converse to the media was my final decision,’ Mourinho told the waiting around press. ‘(Andrea) Belotti spoke since it was straight right after the video game. No 1 really should converse mainly because there is not a lot much more to say other than what I have to say.
‘Slavia Prague seriously deserved that consequence, in a favourable way, and we genuinely deserved it much too, in a adverse way.
‘I did not like just about anything. I have previously spoken to the gamers in the modifying home. I do not ordinarily do that since I get so a great deal adrenaline from remaining on the sideline but the fact that I watched it from previously mentioned, significantly away from the pitch, gave me a distinct sort of tranquillity that authorized me to go and talk to the gamers.
‘What I said stays between us. I only want to be sincere with the Slavia players, who deserved to gain 2-.’
Picking around the pieces of the defeat, Mourinho admitted that ‘nothing worked’ in Roma’s match prepare, and that even accidents in the squad were not adequate to excuse the typical of their functionality.
‘The point that (Nicola) Zalewski was not ready to enjoy, and (Stephan) El Shaarawy played as a wing-again with Belotti up leading on the remaining, could be employed as an excuse. But we were so negative that I really don’t want to.
‘Nothing worked. In phrases of men and women, pretty few of the players experienced the right angle, the professional frame of mind I demand from customers. Plenty of the gamers experienced the improper mindset for a major recreation where there were being objectives to attain.
‘I’m disappointed. I do not want to talk any more since I’ve now done my assessment with the gamers, and I’ll do it tomorrow.’
The previous Chelsea and Genuine Madrid admitted that he incorporated himself in the selection who deserved a loss at Fortuna Arena, with only the 21-year-previous Bove – who arrived up by means of the club’s academy – spared from the mauling.
‘Today the ideal participant in our team – the only one particular I definitely preferred for the reason that he gave almost everything technically, tactically and mentally – was a 20-yr-aged child who was not even in the initially group two yrs in the past,’ Mourinho extra.
‘We experienced just one player who performed with legs, entire body and mind – just a person. When you have 11 gamers on the pitch and only 1 like that, you just can’t earn.
‘The only player who did not have earned to lose was Bove. Everybody else, myself incorporated, deserved to reduce.’
Roma will have no permit up as they proceed their combat to continue to keep speed in Serie A, and must dive straight into preparations for this weekend’s Derby della Capitale towards crosstown rivals Lazio.
The side, in seventh, sit three locations ahead of Maurizio Sarri’s gamers but are separated by a solitary point, and the former Napoli head coach fanned the flames of the rivalry forward of the derby clash with incendiary comments about the scheduling of European fixtures in the week before their conference.
The midfielder rose by way of the ranks of Roma’s academy, the place he has performed considering that age 10
Maurizio Sarri experienced wound up the Poruguese manager prior to the clash with chopping opinions about Roma’s ‘friendly’ ahead of the Roma-Lazio derby on Sunday
Immediately after beating Feyenoord 1- in the Champions League on Tuesday evening, Sarri lamented the derby’s timing for placing the tie in favour of Roma.
‘Roma can find the money for a welcoming on Thursday and we performed a war tonight, there is a elementary difference,’ Sarri stated of the Giallorossi’s conference with Slavia Prague.
Mourinho responded by deflecting offense to Slavia Prague themselves, but couldn’t resist jibing back again: ‘It is as if he explained Slavia have no top quality. I constantly respect my opponents. Potentially this is the distinction in a mentor who has gained 26 titles and an additional that has barely gained nearly anything: that variety of mentality.
‘Every match have to be taken significantly, there are no friendlies. I would love to listen to the reaction of the Lega Serie A, because that was an objective and direct criticism. So I wait around.’