Mourinho slams Real players after defeat
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August 28, 2012, Tuesday
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AN angry Jose Mourinho gave his Real Madrid players a rare public tongue lashing after they squandered the lead and slumped to a 1-2 defeat at Getafe in La Liga on Sunday.
The shock reverse ended the Spanish champion's unbeaten run of 24 league matches, its longest in 15 years, and was the first time it had lost in La Liga after leading at half time in more than five years.
Coming after last weekend's 1-1 draw at home to Valencia, it also left it five points behind Barcelona after two matches, a significant gap in a competition where the arch rivals often go toe to toe until the season finale.
"Real was very bad, an unacceptable match," a grim-faced Mourinho said while refusing to single out any player in particular for criticism. "The only message I want you to take away tonight is that it was a deserved defeat for us," he said. "This was a match in which the defeat was absolutely deserved. More than two matches with just one point it was a horrible match."
Getafe's equalizer just after halftime, when Juan Valera slipped marker Sergio Ramos and nodded past Iker Casillas from a freekick, would have particularly irked Mourinho given the amount of work the players have been doing on dead ball situations in training.
"We have been doing more work than ever on dead ball situations and there is nothing more we can do," Mourinho said. "We cannot work any harder on organization. That goal and the one we conceded against Valencia were two ridiculous goals."
The shock reverse ended the Spanish champion's unbeaten run of 24 league matches, its longest in 15 years, and was the first time it had lost in La Liga after leading at half time in more than five years.
Coming after last weekend's 1-1 draw at home to Valencia, it also left it five points behind Barcelona after two matches, a significant gap in a competition where the arch rivals often go toe to toe until the season finale.
"Real was very bad, an unacceptable match," a grim-faced Mourinho said while refusing to single out any player in particular for criticism. "The only message I want you to take away tonight is that it was a deserved defeat for us," he said. "This was a match in which the defeat was absolutely deserved. More than two matches with just one point it was a horrible match."
Getafe's equalizer just after halftime, when Juan Valera slipped marker Sergio Ramos and nodded past Iker Casillas from a freekick, would have particularly irked Mourinho given the amount of work the players have been doing on dead ball situations in training.
"We have been doing more work than ever on dead ball situations and there is nothing more we can do," Mourinho said. "We cannot work any harder on organization. That goal and the one we conceded against Valencia were two ridiculous goals."
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