Ghana global defender Baba Rahman was dropped to the bench and watched the entire game from the dug-out as his Chelsea side held Ukrainian outfit Dynamo Kiev to a 0-0 draw on Tuesday night in the Uefa Champions League.
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“But Mourinho also tempered his criticism of Skomina by adding that his refereeing had been “very good” apart from the no-penalty incident. When the result is 0-0 and such a penalty is not given, it’s a crucial moment of the game”.
Mourinho has been fuming in recent weeks as he believes he’s being treated differently to Wenger after he was slapped with a £50,000 fine and handed a suspended one-match ban by the FA for comments made about the referee following Chelsea’s loss to Southampton last month. It’s John Carver-esque, ‘ Hamann said to talkSPORT, referring to ex-Newcastle caretaker boss Carver, who last season referred to himself as the best coach in the Premier League and claimed one of his players got sent off on objective.
I see progress. We hit the post twice and gave a good solid defensive performance against a risky team. It’s a pity we didn’t win – now we have to get points away from home. We have to show that we are a team, because individually we can’t do anything, because football is a collective sport. The game in the second half is a little bit of a trap, because we want to win, we feel we can win.
Cesc Fabregas, another whose form in the early part of the campaign has fallen short of last season’s standards, should have won his side a penalty when he was tripped by Serhiy Rybalka but referee Damir Skomina waved play on.
The midfielder said on chelseafc.com: “Step by step I think we are getting better”.
“It is a tough place to come, but it is a point won and we move on to the next game which we must win”, he was quoted as saying by his club’s site.
Mourinho says he sympathises with the Scotland rugby team, who also felt agreed after South African referee Craig Joubert gave Australia a late controversial penalty which sealed the Scots’ fate in the tournament. But these teams have such quality that a home draw against them is a positive result. But at the same time we can not lose.
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