"Cold? Wind? Artificial surface? Who cares, let's play and give people what they love the most, football... 400 Roma fans came, that's love".
Jose Mourinho's message on Instagram ahead of the visit to Bodo-Glimt, on the border of the Arctic circle, was supposed to be an invitation to the football players of Roma, but the opposite happened.
"Vučica" lost in the 3rd round of the Conference League in Norway with an unreal 6:1, and the trophy coach experienced the heaviest European defeat ever!
What's more, Mourinho has never conceded six goals in one game so far in his coaching career, which spans over two decades.
Roma is second in the group in the third-ranked European competition, passage is probably out of the question, in the next round the leader Bodo comes to Rome, but that is now in the background - how did the 400 fans of the Roman club that Mourinho mentioned feel?
At halftime it was 2:1 for the home team, the Portuguese continued to introduce "heavy artillery" in the form of Pellegrini, Ibrahim, Mkhitaryan... but instead of a turnaround, a total deluge arrived.
Roma have had such European defeats in the past, but from whom - from Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Barcelona...
A terrible prelude to Sunday's "derby of the sun" in Serie A, Roma's clash with leading Napoli at the "Olympic".
In the League of Conferences, the defeat was also experienced by another giant in this competition - Tottenham, but much "softer", 1:0 against Vitesse in the Netherlands.
Vešović's Karabag defeated Kosović's Kairat in the Eastern derby - 2:1.
Kosović was substituted for the Kazakhs in the 72nd minute, Vešović came on for the Azerbaijanis in the 86th minute, and as soon as he stepped onto the field, Husejnov scored the winning goal.
After three rounds, Karabagh has seven points, Kairat only one.
Dejan Boljević, another Montenegrin footballer in the Conference League, played all 90 minutes in the home defeat of Alaškert of Armenia against LASK of Austria, while Staniša Mandić played the last 20 minutes for Mura, who lost to Reno 2:1 in Murska Saturday.
Another interesting result - in the duel between HJK Helsinki, the "executioner" of Buducnosti on the European stage, and Maccabi from Tel Aviv, which eliminated Sutjeska much more difficult, the Israelis celebrated in Finland - even with 5:0...
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