{"id":84756,"date":"2025-11-22T12:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mourinho-slams-benfica-wanted-9-changes-after-pale-victory\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:26:38","slug":"mourinho-slams-benfica-wanted-9-changes-after-pale-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/mourinho-slams-benfica-wanted-9-changes-after-pale-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourinho Slams Benfica: &#8220;Wanted 9 changes&#8221; after pale victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mourinho Harshly Criticizes Benfica Players Despite Victory<\/h2>\n\n\nBenfica coach Jos\u00e9 Mourinho held nothing back after the 2-0 victory over Atl\u00e9tico CP last Friday, expressing his dissatisfaction with the attitude of his players during the match.\n\nDespite the victory in the fourth round of the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, Mourinho revealed that he considered making up to nine changes at halftime due to the &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; attitude of some players.\n\nRichard R\u00edos and Vangelis Pavlidis&#8217; late goals secured the victory for Benfica against the third division team.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In the first half, Benfica didn&#8217;t play, and worse than not playing, Benfica wasn&#8217;t on the field.<\/p><cite>Jos\u00e9 Mourinho<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMourinho, known for his strong post-match statements, emphasized the lack of commitment and attitude of his players, negatively comparing their performance to the level of competition seen in training.\n\nThe coach highlighted the &#8220;absolutely ridiculous turnovers&#8221; from the first minute of the match.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1122%2Fr1579034_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Jos\u00e9 Mourinho no estaba contento con sus jugadores durante la victoria 2-0 del viernes.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nThe coach explained that he planned to make four substitutions at halftime, although he wanted to make even more. According to Mourinho, the need to make so many changes reflected the seriousness of the situation, not because of the risk of losing the match, but because of his concept of professionalism.\n\nIn the second half, Mourinho made four changes, which, according to him, transformed the team&#8217;s attitude, making it more aggressive, intense, and dynamic.\n\nMourinho, who joined Benfica earlier this year, has led the team to third place in the Liga Portugal, behind Porto and Sporting.\n\nThe technician also commented on the victory:\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It was a question of whether the goal would come in the 50th, 60th, 70th or 80th minute, but it had to come as it did.<\/p><cite>Jos\u00e9 Mourinho<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMourinho concluded that it was a fair victory and congratulated Atl\u00e9tico.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mourinho Harshly Criticizes Benfica Players Despite Victory Benfica coach Jos\u00e9 Mourinho held nothing back after the 2-0 victory over Atl\u00e9tico CP last Friday, expressing his dissatisfaction with the attitude of his players during the match. Despite the victory in the fourth round of the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, Mourinho revealed that he considered making up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[10550,2444,795,10551],"class_list":{"0":"post-84756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-attitude","9":"tag-benfica","10":"tag-jose-mourinho","11":"tag-taca-de-portugal"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}