Roma head coach Jose Mourinho commented on the penalty against Wolves in the quarter-final match of the Italian Cup against Lazio (0:1). In the 50th minute of the game, Roma were penalised for a foul by Dean Geisen on Tata Castellanos in their own penalty area.
Jose Mourinho, Getty Images"It always hurts, during a derby, even more so. We have great difficulties that we are constantly fighting against. We beat Napoli very well, we deserved more against Atalanta and Juventus, and today we lost the match because of a penalty in modern football. I don't want to say whether it was a penalty or not, but it was a penalty awarded by VAR. The referee was three metres away from the incident and he did not give a penalty. Then why does VAR give it later?
I don't know if Italy uses the expression we have in Portugal. We say that in the penalty area, when a foul is awarded, it is the maximum punishment. It's almost like the death penalty, like the guillotine of the French Revolution. The maximum penalty is a significant sanction in the football context," Mourinho said in a post-match interview.
