Mourinho harshly criticizes the referees after Real Madrid's defeat in the derby

And on the eighth day, José Mourinho exploded against the referees. After three months acting as Bambi in the press room, the Real Madrid coach went to the neck against the field referee (Ortiz Arias), the VAR (Trujillo Suárez) and the Technical Committee of Referees after Real Madrid's defeat in the Metropolitan derby. He did not raise his voice, but his speech did. And a lot. "The one who has to be happy, apart from the people of Atlético, is the referee appointment committee. It has all been very strange," he said at the beginning of an almost monothematic intervention on the referee's performance.

The Portuguese sat in the press room with a sheet of paper on which he had printed the two big complaints from the whites: two possible red cards for Kang-in Lee, for a tackle from behind on Valverde, and for Cuti Romero, for an iron on Bellingham's knee (the Argentine took the yellow card after the VAR notified the referee because he had initially cautioned the Englishman). Both in the first half, still 0-0. "The first thing is that a week before we already knew who the referee is when, as they tell me, it is 24 hours before. Then, he is a referee who, at 41 years old, has no international caps, so it won't be because he is a great referee. The poor guy couldn't handle the pressure. It's a pressure from the eighties, which is rarely seen today. And then Mr. Trujillo, in the VAR, called him for the first red [Romero's], but I think he didn't do it in the second [the of Kang-in Lee], which is even more serious than the first. He has a very complete history as a VAR in Madrid matches. Or, without going any further, Real Sociedad in the Cup, Osasuna, Girona... He is a VAR that has a lot of history. If the poor referee can be said to have no experience, with this man there is no pressure in Las Rozas.