After receiving a two-match suspension for his team’s tie with Hellas Verona on Saturday, Jose Mourinho watched Roma end their winless skid from the team bus.
On Saturday, February 19th, Mourinho was sent off for yelling at the referee and sending a ball high into the air during Roma’s Serie A match. As a result, on Sunday afternoon, the Portuguese manager, who was serving the first of a two-match suspension, watched Roma’s encounter against Spezia from ‘jail.’
Coach Nuno Santos, Mourinho’s goalkeeper, rushed to Instagram to share a photo of himself and the Roma manager watching the game on an iPad from the team bus. ‘The jail has iPad tv,’ he captioned the photo.
After the game, Santos uploaded a photo of himself with the Roma coaching staff. After Roma’s first win in five games, they were seen celebrating in front of the team van.
Roma’s winless skid came to an end when Tammy Abraham scored a penalty deep into stoppage time. Mourinho’s squad won 1-0 thanks to his penalty kick against a 10-man Spezia side.
Roma had hit the woodwork four times and squandered numerous chances against Spezia, who had played the whole of the game with ten men after defender Kelvin Amian was sent out at the conclusion of the first half.
It was Roma’s first win in five games, and it moved them up to sixth position, six points behind Juventus in fourth. Spezia, on the other hand, is four points clear of the relegation zone.
After the break, Roma increased their pressure, and Bryan Cristante’s attempt deflected off the right post.
After Spezia goalkeeper Ivan Provedel made a superb save to push Lorenzo Pellegrini’s effort off the post, Roma struck the woodwork for the second time in the game.
Nicolo Zaniolo twice hit the crossbar in the same move, and the ball was cleared off the line before Spezia managed to get it away in a goalmouth scramble, denying Roma in a frenzied finish.
The referee, though, assessed the incident on the pitch-side monitor and gave a penalty after watching Giulio Maggiore catching Zaniolo in the face with a high boot as the Roma midfielder was diving for a header for the first of his two tries that went over the bar.
Abraham maintained his composure to bury the penalty kick in the bottom left corner.