This season's Champions League, Europa League and UEFA League have already reached the final round, and Roma rushed to the final of the UEFA League with the last face of Serie A, and will compete with Dutch side Feyenoord at the end of May.
Roma, which is busy running at both ends of the league and European games, has not occupied a good position in the Serie A table. According to the statistics of the Italian local media on the impact on the team this season due to referee blowing penalties, Roma have been one of the biggest victims of misjudgment in Serie A. The situation did not improve due to media coverage, but was re-enacted in the 36th round of the match between Roma and Fiorentina.
In the 5th minute of the match, after a physical confrontation between Gonzalez and Mancini, he staggered into the Roma penalty area, roma defender Karlsdorp stepped forward to intercept and Gonzalez fell to the ground. The referee on duty changed the penalty after VAR intervened and Gonzalez scored a penalty.
The early and bizarre penalty was impossible to say that it did not affect Roma's play. In the end, Roma lost 2-0 away to Fiorentina and fell to sixth place in the table. Former Serie A referee Marelli, who was working on the commentary of the match at the time, expressed his confusion about the penalty directly: "I was confused, there was contact, but the degree was very slight. The referee thought it was a violation, but I think he overjudged the penalty and it was wrong to award the penalty. ”
After the game, Mourinho pointed his dissatisfaction at the VAR referee: "I have watched the video, it was contact, not a foul, the referee was very close, did not give a penalty, but the VAR referee intervened. He said Rome and other explanations had been waiting for a long time, but not for it.
Combined with the statistics of misjudgments in the Italian media and the views of former Serie A referees, we can know that what Mourinho said is not false. However, Roma was waiting for an explanation, and the referees in Serie A never seemed to think to give.
Mourinho is a very personal manager, and a fast mouth is even more unforgiving, which naturally makes the outside world's evaluation of him polarized. When Serie A referees frequently chose penalties that were more in favor of Rome's opponents, and then traced back to when and where Mourinho and serie A referee Liang Zi knotted, this made roma's home match against Verona in February this year revived.
In the match between Roma and Verona on 19 February 2022, Mourinho kicked the ball and then made a "phone call gesture" to the referee, and was sent off with a red card on the spot. There are reports that Mourinho shouted to the referee: "They sent you on purpose, Juve sent you."
In 2011, a group of Serie A clubs, led by Juventus, profited from matches by controlling the selection of referees. Later, because the team's phone recordings were exposed, these scandals were put into the sun. Roma versus Verona's referee Luca Payretto's father, Pierreuigi Paireto, was punished for participating in the incident and was not allowed to participate in football-related matters for the next three and a half years.
Although it is true that he participated in the past that affected the fairness of the game, Mourinho taunted other people's fathers in public with the action of "calling", which is indeed a little less graceful. This is perhaps the most obvious conflict between Mourinho and the Serie A referees, and how many undercurrents caused by Mourinho's anger and words are not something that the outside world can count.
After this round of the league, Roma are three points behind fifth-place Lazio in the Serie A table and 59 points with Fiorentina and Atalanta. The top 7 in Serie A are eligible to play in Europe, and if Roma end up falling out of the top seven and failing to win this season's UEFA title, they will not qualify for next season's European competition.
Serie A referees have frequently saddle Mourinho, and the rifts on both sides seem to be difficult to repair, which makes Mourinho's prospects in Italy uncertain. The French media has released the news that Paris Saint-Germain has officially contacted Mourinho's team, the negotiation process is full of sincerity, and Paris hopes that Mourinho can lead the team to win the Champions League trophy.
Mourinho is a whole, and if he lacks the strategizing on the sidelines, or the lack of outspoken catharsis, then it is not him.
When the final whistle of the UEFA semi-finals between Roma and Leicester City sounded, Mourinho was relieved, his hair was gray and his face was haggard, and he hugged the coaching staff and players one by one with tears.
Advancing to the final of the European Union League is such a bland stroke in Mourinho's coaching resume. But the infusion of hard work is directly proportional to the tears of joy, and this encounter of "madness" in Italy can also be regarded as seeing the light in the midst of many difficulties.