Jose Mourinho
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Podcast Appearances
But it's typical of fatigue.
There are no miracles.
So congratulations to everyone.
And for them, with 10 for a long period is even more difficult.
Because with 11 is difficult, with 10 is more difficult for us.
It was just a question of...
keep a clean sheet which we did because David made a super important save with Antonio and it was a question of move the ball, try to find spaces, accelerate the game.
I had people on the bench fresh to bring Mata, Rashford, they brought different intensity
in the game and I had still Martial to come, which in the end I preferred to do it with Smolen because of the risk we took before.
I knew that Slavan would play Karel for the last period of the game and Karel is not for Carrick, has to be for a real central defender.
So we did okay, not a phenomenal match, but the circumstances are really difficult and again, congratulations to everyone.
What did you make of that decision?
I don't make because I'm really far and because I didn't watch on television.
But I had to educate myself during this first half of the season because we had so many controversial decisions that I had to educate myself.
So it's not today that... What do you mean educate yourself?
No, I had to cope with frustrations.
I had to cope with Zlatan goal disallowed.
I had to cope with a clear penalty against Crystal Palace in the last part of the game.
I had to cope with many wrong decisions.
But honestly, I think this period is also difficult for the referees.