It could have been an easy victory against winless, last-placed Serie A team. It could have been a joint second place, a Champions League spot and an exciting weekend with Juventus coming to Olimpico. But that’s not what happens when Jose Mourinho is the coach. The Portuguese managed to get his third red card this season after clashing with the referee just seconds into the second half of a game with Cremonese. Roma ended up losing the game, falling behind arch rivals Lazio and Mourinho will not be on the bench on Sunday against strong Juventus.4th referee Marco Serra: “Everyone’s taking the piss out of you. Go home, go home.”José Mourinho: “I need to know if we can take legal action. He won’t have the honesty to say what he told me and how he treated me. It was unjustifiable.”pic.twitter.com/SvBv3e2WN7— IM🇵🇹 (@Iconic_Mourinho) March 1, 2023 But former Chelsea, Real and Manchester coach is not thinking about that at the moment, as he is still focused on his incident with the fourth official. Even thou he won’t say what happened, he is thinking, for the first time in his life, to take legal action against the man in black.“I am emotional, but not crazy. In order to react the way I did, something had to happen first. I need to understand if I can take any legal action. Piccinini gave me a red card, because unfortunately the fourth official does not have the capacity to understand what he said to me. I want to find out if there is an audio recording. I don’t want to get into the fact that Serra is from Turin and on Sunday we are playing against Juventus. For the first time in my career, a fourth official spoke to me in the most incredible way. It was unjustifiable. At the end of the game, I went to speak to them. Piccinini, who was the fourth official in the last game when I was sent off, told me to apologise to Serra. I told Serra he should have the courage to explain what happened, but he had memory problems“ said Mourinho after the game.A red card for Mourinho and an embarrassing Roma loss in CremoneseRoma coach did admitted that his team played bad and didn’t deserve to win.„We were a little unlucky, conceding two goals on their one and a half chances. The responsibility is ours. We lacked intensity, should’ve killed off the game straight away. It is certainly not true that one team wanted it more than the other tonight. Roma players always want to win. The sensation is that they were playing the game of a lifetime, though. It was not a game we deserved to win, but we didn’t deserve to lose either. After the equaliser, we all thought that the winning goal would come, but instead it was their penalty” explained Mourinho.##NAJAVA_MECA_7059485##
