{"id":291881,"date":"2023-09-20T23:35:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T23:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=291881"},"modified":"2023-09-20T23:35:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T23:35:39","slug":"jose-mourinho-bizarrely-claims-roma-didnt-lose-europa-league-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/soccer\/jose-mourinho-bizarrely-claims-roma-didnt-lose-europa-league-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Mourinho bizarrely claims Roma didn't lose Europa League final"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jose Mourinho has bizarrely claimed that Roma didn’t lose the Europa League final against Sevilla last May.<\/p>\n
The Portuguese was unhappy with the match officials after Sevilla lifted the trophy following a penalty shootout in Budapest<\/p>\n
Mourinho was later handed a four-match ban for\u00a0directing abusive language at English referee Anthony Taylor during the final in Budapest.<\/p>\n
After the game, footage on social media showed Mourinho directing a string of expletives towards the officiating team in the car park, labelling their performance a “disgrace”<\/p>\n
Taylor and his family were also harassed as they made their way home from the final.<\/p>\n
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Jose Mourinho has bizarrely claimed that Roma didn’t lose the Europa League final<\/p>\n
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Mourinho was handed a four-match ban for directing abusive language at ref Anthony Taylor\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The Portuguese was unhappy with the match officials after Sevilla lifted the trophy<\/p>\n
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Roma begin a new Europa League campaign against Tiraspol on Thursday, but Mourinho is still fuming.<\/p>\n
‘It is a different season to the last, a different competition,’ said Mourinho in his press conference.<\/p>\n
‘I will also continue to say until the bitter end that we did not lose that final in Budapest. Every time people talk to me about it, I will tell them that we did not lose.<\/p>\n
‘Having said that, today we start from scratch and the first objective is to qualify for the next phase. Last year we started the group with a defeat and that complicated matters, having to go through the play-offs, so winning the group would obviously be important.’<\/p>\n
Roma had a dire start to the Serie A season with one point from three games, but made up for it by demolishing Empoli 7-0 at the Stadio Olimpico on Sunday.<\/p>\n