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🚨 José Mourinho on Argentina’s comeback and the controversial officiating vs Egypt 🗣️ “Argentina are a very, very good team. No doubt about that. They have quality, they have experience, they have the mentality of champions. To come back from 2-0 down against a team that was playing with so much confidence, organisation and threat on the counter — that shows exactly why they are where they are. They never give up, they keep believing until the last second, and tonight they showed it again. Respect to them for that. But… and it’s a big but… with the right officiating, this game could have gone either way. And it could have gone either way without any controversy. Tonight the officiating was wrong on so many accounts. Not one or two marginal decisions — many. The disallowed goal for Egypt, the way certain situations were interpreted, the consistency… or lack of it. These are not small things when the game is so tight and both teams are giving everything. I am not saying Argentina didn’t deserve to win. They showed character and quality to turn it around. But when the decisions go so heavily in one direction, when you see clear situations handled in one way and similar ones in another, it changes the game. It changes the emotion, it changes the fairness, and it changes the story of the match. Egypt played with heart, they took the lead, they had moments where they could have killed the game, and then decisions started going against them. That is difficult to accept when you prepare so well and you fight so hard. The referees have a very difficult job, I know that. But when there are so many wrong decisions in one game, it becomes impossible not to talk about it. Argentina are strong enough to win without help. Tonight they didn’t need it, but the way the game was refereed created unnecessary questions. Football deserves better than that.”