Mourinho wonders about the fairness of the transfer of teams from the Champions League to the "Europa League"
Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho, Tottenham Hotspur, confirmed that the citizen of the latter, Manchester United, would be among the most prominent candidates to win the European League title (Europa League), but he wondered at the same time about the justice in the system that allows teams that failed to reach the final rounds in the Champions League to move to the championship The collateral.
Manchester United will play in the 32nd round of the Europa League after losing to Germany's Leipzig 2-3 in the sixth and final round of the group stage on Tuesday in the nominal tournament to finish the group in third place.
Mourinho led the Red Devils to the title of the auxiliary competition in the year 2017. And after having secured the knockout rounds this season with Spears, he will need to beat his Belgian guest Antwerp in the last round to ensure the top of the tenth group.
"The teams that come (from the Champions League) are always strong, and the teams do not usually belong to the European League level," the Portuguese said.
"Manchester United is one of the big teams. His group was very difficult with Paris Saint-Germain and Leipzig, it is very difficult. We all knew that the task would not be easy for any of them and we knew that a strong team from this group would move to the Europa League," he said.
Three former European champions, Real Madrid, Ajax Amsterdam and Italian Inter, face the risk of falling into the auxiliary competition.
Mourinho admitted that the quality of the European League has increased with the entry of the teams coming from the Champions League, but he questioned the fairness of that.
The former Inter and Real coach said, "There is no doubt that the quality is increasing and the competition is also, and that is good for the competition. But from a sporting point of view, I think it is unfair when a certain team does not succeed in one tournament, that it transfer to another."
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