Only in third place in the league standings was Roma, who won 3-0 against Udinese, and now has a serious chance of being in the new Champions League next season.
Jose Mourinho was asked to speak about the missed penalty, which Beauvais eventually scored from the rebound, and explained why he didn’t let Lorenzo Pellegrini take it from 11 steps.
“The result might suggest that the game was easy, but I honestly didn’t like it at all until the third goal came. Even when Rui saved the penalty, Udinese pushed us into our area, we eased the pressure and then the fatigue set in.
3-0 doesn’t reflect how I was on the bench“, initially stated the Portuguese technician
“We needed the win, to play without Pellegrini having the pressure on his shoulders because he missed a penalty or because of previous performances that weren’t fantastic. He has my trust.
The decision not to let him perform it was simply because I didn’t need the extra pressure.
Yes, I told him that if there was a penalty to make it 2-0, it was his, but if it was decisive, today was not the day”, was Mourinho’s response to his decision to have Cristade take the penalty and not Pellegrini.
Source: Sport Fm
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