Losing from Barcelona, ​​Jose Mourinho: Real Madrid is Too Soft!

DBasia.news –  Ivan Rakitic’s goal distinguished the final result of the Clasico at Santiago Bernabeu between Real Madrid against Barcelona, Sunday (3/3) WIB, week 26 LaLiga. Jose Mourinho also commented on the final results of the match.

The loss came twice for Madrid after being defeated in the Copa del Rey semi-final second leg with a score of 0-3 (aggregate goals 1-4). Madrid are now 12 points adrift of Barca who are at the top of the standings.

In addition, Madrid’s superior record in the history of the Clasico meeting must end at 95 wins, as Barcelona this time leads with 96 wins from a total of 242 meetings. The era of Lionel Messi and mates was able to end Madrid’s dominance after 87 years.

Mourinho watched the match. According to the former mid-2010-2013 Madrid coach, Solari’s team played too softly against Barcelona. Madrid seemed unable to overcome the pressure of playing in a big match.

“They were unable to play what I usually call a temperature (atmosphere) big matches. They are passive. I can’t discuss poor performance, the performance was not bad, I just think the performance is soft (weak),” Mourinho told BeIN Sports.

“Sometimes you play like this against teams and ultimately get positive results, but against the top teams you have to do something better if you want to win.”

In addition, Mourinho, who successfully presented a LaLiga title, the Copa del Rey and the Spanish Super Cup, saw the weakness of Madrid’s game because of the lack of confidence and playing beliefs.

“That was not a thrilling performance. Not a happy team performance, not a team performance with strong confidence and high confidence,” added The Special One.

“It’s clear they are now in the zone, after going through some bad results, especially in the Copa del Rey match, that confidence is really low,” he continued.

One more thing Mourinho commented on was the moment when Sergio Ramos appeared to deliberately elbow Lionel Messi during of the first half. Mourinho has a unique theory on the matter

“I think Sergio Ramos’ action might come from a player who knows the game must change,” Mourinho added.

“And maybe, he did it intentionally to create a different temperature in the second half, because the fight until that time arrived really, in my opinion, was too soft.”

Mourinho believes that Madrid’s softness was indeed reasonable. In his era, Real Madrid always played aggressively and lead to being rough each time they played the Clasico against Barcelona, ​​until he formed a rivalry with Pep Guardiola who now coaches Manchester City.