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Mourinho gets five match ban – Club and Player reactions

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Real Madrid Jose Mourinho is set to contest a five match ban imposed by UEFA after his outburst against Barcelona claiming that UEFA supports Barcelona.

An official statement released by Uefa reads:

“Madrid coach Jose Mourinho, who was dismissed from the bench in the first leg and made an inappropriate statement at the post-match interview, has been suspended for the next five UEFA club competition matches for which he would otherwise be eligible. The suspension includes the one-match ban for the match following the coach’s dismissal, which was served for the return leg in Barcelona on Tuesday. The fifth match is suspended for a probationary period of three years. Mourinho has also been fined €50,000.”

Confirming their position in regards the ban, the Spanish club’s official statement reads:

“Real Madrid CF believes this resolution still suffers from the same defects found at the start of the disciplinary case, which made it impossible for our coach to use his right to defend himself, since the exact statements for which the disciplinary case was opened are still unknown.

“Real Madrid CF will appeal this decision before the UEFA Appeals Body.”

Meanwhile Real Madrid assistant coach Karanka said that Jose Mourinho is no longer interested in attending press conferences.

“He has not received it well. They [Uefa] never explained why. The club has released a statement saying it will appeal,” Karanka is quoted as saying by Marca.com.

“Mourinho will defend himself until this comes to the end. Mou will not talk now because he will go through justice. He’s been through everything. But, for now we have to focus on the league and we want to concentrate on that.

“The idea is until they [Uefa] specify a reason then he [Mourinho] will not speak at the press conferences. Uefa have not communicated the reason why the coach has been suspended.”

Real Madrid legend Zinedine Zidane has refuted reports claiming that he has any problem with coach Jose Mourinho’s approach toward matches.

Zidane dismissed any such problems between him and Mourinho. Speak to Real Madrid’s official website: “My relationship with him and his staff is very good.

“I follow their work and collaborate with them in everything related to the first team. I have total respect for Jose Mourinho’s work on the Real Madrid bench. I only share comments or ideas on the first team with him.”

“Barcelona get help from outside” : Post-match reaction

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Post match reactions were rather straight direct from Real Madrid players as to why they felt Barcelona gets unfair advantage over Real Madrid.
Real Madrid lost the first leg 2 – 0 with scores 0 – 0 until the controversial sending off defender Pepe.
At today’s game Gonzalo Higuain goal was controversially disallowed in the 2nd half and that could have been the changing point of the game.
Soon after a beautiful ball from Iniesta fell into the path of Pedro and he converted to make the score 1 – 0 and 3 – 0 on aggregate but minutes later Marcelo leveled the match.
Madrid pushed for more goals but the match finished draw and Barcelona go on Wembley to play against probably Manchester United in the finals.
This is what Ronaldo had to say about the match.
‘Barcelona is a difficult team to beat because they get outside help. Next year they should give the cup directly to them.’
Xabi Alonso’ view
‘When we scored the first goal it would have been totally different and we feel so many bad decisions have been made against us and we are not happy about that,’ he said.
‘We think we did a good job but decisions went against us, we really feel that way.’
The former Liverpool midfielder claimed that Higuain disallowed goal would have altered the nature of the tie in Madrid’s favor as the game was still deadlocked at 0-0 at the time.
‘It would have changed everything, our position would have been much stronger and after that it was much more difficult,’ he said.

Barcelona’s coach Guardiola view on the match

On response to Alonso claim that Barcelona got help from the referee by not allowing Higuain goal.
‘I don’t have time for that, it has been a tough 20 days and we have played the richest team in the world many times, the referee may have had an influence but we were very good in the second match,
‘Football is coming home so it an honor to play at Wembley,’ he said.
‘We won our first Champions League in 1992 at the old Wembley and we are ever so proud for our club and players.’
The 40-year-old Barca manager thinks Manchester United will progress against Schalke to set up a repeat of the 2009 final which his side won 2-0, but he believes that would have no bearing on any potential rematch.
‘I suppose it will be Manchester [in the final], it was two years ago and I think Sir Alex Ferguson will always be there so for us it is an honor and for me as a young coach it is an honor to arrive at the final and play them,’ he said.

Mourinho : Khedira will play this season

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Season not over for Real Madrid’s Sami Khedira despite injury concern

Khedira injury gives Jose Mourinho another headache, but he is unlikely to miss the rest of the season

Copa del Rey: Lioneal Messi (FC Barcelona) Sami Khedira (Real Madrid)Real Madrid midfielder Sami Khedira is set to return before the end of the season as coach Jose Mourinho has played down concerns after reports suggested he would miss all his club’s remaining fixtures.

German broadcaster ARD and Spain’s AS.com are reporting that the Germany international will play no further part in the season due to the injury he sustained in Wednesday night’s Copa del Rey final win against Barcelona in Valencia.

Real Madrid have not confirmed the news officially, but Mourinho told the press he was stunned to hear talk that his man was out for the rest of term.

Ever eager to avoid mixed messages from the Spanish and German press, the coach clarified the situation.

“The injury to Khedira is important like any other. It’s a limitation for the team and there are players who are hard to replace. It is what it is, bad news, but to say he will not return before the end of the season is absurd,” he said.

“He will not play tomorrow or on Wednesday because there is no miracle in medicine, but we hope he is back soon.”

Madrid are expected to examine the player on Saturday to further diagnose the problem. Their official website said on Friday that Khedira did not take part in the training session ahead of tomorrow’s game at Valencia.

Video: Real Madrid 1 – 0 Barcelona Copa Del Rey Finale

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Match report : It takes an extra time goal from Cristiano Ronaldo to score the winning goal for Real Madrid in Copa Del Rey Final against Barcelona.

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szólj hozzá: Real Madrid 1 X 0 Barcelona