An unknown Norwegian team inflicts Mourinho and Roma, a "humiliating and historic loss"
The underwater Norwegian Bodo Glimt inflicted the harshest loss in the career of Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho when he dropped his Italian guest, Roma 6-1, in the third round of the group stage of the newly created continental competition "Conference League" yesterday, on an evening that also witnessed the defeat of Tottenham Hotspur with a clean goal against its Dutch host Vitesse. .
This was the first time that a team supervised by Mourinho conceded six goals in the 1008th match of his coaching career, according to the "Opta" statistics website.
Mourinho had previously suffered a 5-0 loss against Barcelona when he was coach of Real Madrid in the La Liga competitions in November 2010. Mourinho, who did not include his key players, said, "Their first team is much better than our second team. It is my fault. I wanted to rest the players after a match against Juventus and the other against Napoli and I made these decisions, and in the end their players are better than my players and their team is better than my team... There is a difference between losing 3-1 or 6 and 7-1."
In response to a question about playing on artificial grass and in cold weather, "there are of course fears of injuries but I don't want to make excuses. The weather was good and there was a slight wind but that applies to both teams. I don't want to find excuses but just congratulate the opponent and their wonderful fans." The Norwegian champion continued his strong start and topped the third group with seven points after a second victory against a draw, while the Italian capital's team froze at six points in second place against Bulgarian CSKA Sofia and Austrian Zorya Lohan, who meet later.
In the city of Bodo, located in the Arctic Circle, in a cold atmosphere in which the temperature reached two degrees Celsius, Roma, with its reserve squad, failed to compensate for the disappointment of its fall against its host, Juventus, in “Serie A” last weekend.
The first half ended with the hosts, whose fans are famous for waving giant yellow toothbrushes during the matches, with a score of 2-1 thanks to Eric Butime and Patrick Berg (8 and 20), before the Spaniard Carles Perez reduced the difference (28).
Mourinho pushed Brian Kristanti, Armenian Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Uzbekistan Eldor Shumorodov at the beginning of the second half, but Butime quickly responded with a third goal in the 52nd minute. Mourinho tried to remedy the situation and also put English striker Tammy Abraham and Lorenzo Pellegrini in an hour after the start of the confrontation, but Bodo / Glimt responded In the harshest way possible, with two goals, first by Solbakken (71 and 80) and Amal Pellegrino (78).
The Norwegian coach, Keitel Knutsi, proved what he said on the eve of the confrontation when he downplayed the importance of facing his twice-crowned Portuguese counterpart (with Porto and Inter in Italy) in addition to the Europa League (Manchester United), by saying, "He is a man of flesh and blood like us." ", adding that his team "is capable of achieving amazing things."
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