Jose Mourinho has strongly criticised referee Miguel Angel Ortiz Arias, Video Assistant Referee (VAR) Daniel Jesus Trujillo Suarez and the Liga refereeing committee after his facet’s flamable 2-1 defeat at Atletico Madrid on Sunday.
After holding up images of challenges between Madrid’s Jude Bellingham and Federico Valverde and Atleti’s Cristian Romero and Lee Kang-in, Mourinho stated he had not reviewed Dean Huijsen’s second-half purple card for pulling again Giuliano Simeone, which resulted in Alejandro Grimaldo scoring a penalty earlier than Jonathan David added the hosts’ second of their 2-0 win.
Mourinho alleged that the circumstances surrounding the referee’s appointment had been unsuitable and instructed the VAR official had a historical past of poor selections towards Madrid.
Arias is in his seventh season as a Liga official and is the primary from Madrid to have overseen the sport, in accordance with Marca. The outlet, who named him as their greatest referee of the 2021/22 season, stated he’s a PE instructor.
What Jose Mourinho stated about referees after Atleti vs Madrid
“It was all very unusual,” Mourinho stated (through Madrid). “The very first thing is {that a} week earlier than the match, it was already recognized who the referee can be when, as I’ve been instructed, it must be introduced 24 hours earlier than.
“Per week earlier than, it was already recognized who the referee was. Then, it’s a 41-year-old referee who isn’t even worldwide, and it’s not as a result of he’s an awesome referee.
“The poor man got here right here and couldn’t deal with the strain, which I name the strain of the ’80s – one thing you hardly ever see at present.
“Then there’s Mr Trujillo, who was on VAR… he has a really full historical past as a VAR in Actual Madrid matches.
“Final season alone, there was the Actual Sociedad match within the Copa del Rey, after which there [were games against] Osasuna and Girona.
“It is a VAR with loads of historical past. This mixture: a poor referee who has solely officiated small video games and a VAR official with a protracted historical past.
“Congratulations to the referee appointment committee.”
Atletico vs Actual Madrid: Mourinho desires ‘peace’
Madrid’s second defeat of Mourinho’s second spell in cost – each of which have come throughout their final three away matches in La Liga – has left them fourth after seven league video games, six factors behind leaders Barcelona.
“In the event that they go away us alone, in peace and allow us to compete on equal phrases with everybody, there’s nonetheless a protracted option to go,” Mourinho stated of his complaints within the context of a possible title problem.
“I don’t need to go too far and say this was ready. I don’t need to assume that. I need to assume they merely made errors. Simply as a coach or a participant could make errors, I need to assume the referee committee made errors.
“Poor individuals – they made errors, sending somebody who’s 41 years previous and has by no means been in a state of affairs like this, alongside another person with a really wealthy historical past towards Actual Madrid.”
