🇮🇹 Mourinho sees red and a poetic penalty as chaos reigns for Roma | OneFootball

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A red card for José Mourinho. A poetic missed penalty. A well-taken volley for an equaliser.

Roma-Torino had so many memorable moments on Sunday evening, and that in the final six minutes alone.

The Giallorossi’s form has stuttered recently and they looked to be heading for another disappointing defeat after Karol Linetty headed the visitors into the lead.

The pressure was increasing on Mourinho and it showed.

He was sent off on 89 minutes for protesting a foul on the outstanding Paulo Dybala, who excelled in his return off the bench, looking like he hadn’t missed a beat.

“My red card was deserved. My words to the referee merited it,” Mourinho admitted to DAZN. “I apologised afterwards. I had the humility to do that, others can judge his performance.”

In injury-time, the man in the middle may have appeased the Portuguese somewhat by awarding a penalty after Dybala was scythed down in the box.

The man charged with taking it and potentially netting his first Roma goal was, interestingly, former Torino captain and club legend Andrea Belotti.

It was a curious call from the 28-year-old, all the more so when it emerged afterwards that he was not the designated penalty taker.

He sent former team-mate Vanja Milinković-Savić the wrong way but crashed his penalty against the post.

Out of 36 penalties taken since 2014/15, it was his 1oth miss – nobody has missed more than Il Gallo.

But instead of blaming Belotti for the miss, his coach appeared to shift blame elsewhere.

“He wasn’t supposed to take the penalty but I can’t say who should have,” added Mourinho. “It can happen. What I can’t stomach is psychological fragility. Belotti had the courage to take it.”

Dybala may be the man being hinted at. After all, he is just returning from an injury sustained in the act of taking a penalty and the World Cup is looming large.

He made up for it though, curling a shot against the bar (the 12th time Roma have hit the woodwork this season), allowing Nemanja Matić to pounce on the rebound from the edge of the area to steer a deflected volley into the corner for a point.

Of the 17 goals Torino have conceded this season, it is the sixth in the final 15 minutes of games. For Roma, it was their latest goal since Daniele De Rossi’s 97th minute strike against Cagliari in 2011, clocking in at 93:24.

Lost amid all of the madness too, we may have seen the birth of a promising career.

On 68 minutes, Mourinho threw in a Swedish youngster of Bosnian origin named Benjamin Tahirović for his debut and the 19-year-old midfielder is highly regarded.

But understandably, his big bow was overshadowed by another evening of chaos in the capital.

And elsewhere …

Champions Milan needed an injury-time winner to get back on track against Fiorentina at San Siro.

Juventus rubberstamped their resurgence with an emphatic and unexpected 3-0 victory over Lazio in Turin on Sunday.

Inter sent out a message by leaving Bergamo with all three points as an inspired Edin Džeko performance saw off Atalanta in a five-goal thriller.

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The midfielder has been on fire since his move to Serie A, seamlessly filling in the void of Scotsman in the squad after Aaron Hickey’s exit. This was his best goal yet.

🥇 Player of the Weekend

Edin Džeko was everywhere for Inter’s goals in their crucial 3-2 win at Atalanta. He scored the first with a stylish scorpion style kick and was credited with a second, even if it seemed his pressure forced an own goal for the final touch.

But it was his presence that did lead to José Luis Palomino heading in the winner for the third.