The Real Madrid manager has stated that his record speaks for itself after the Portuguese endured recent criticism following the Los Blancos’ Champions League exit.
It was the third consecutive season that Spanish Giants Real Madrid crashed out of the elite European competition on the familiar stage; the semi final stage.
It was http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 two years back and German opposition for two consecutive years on the trot which bit the title aspirations of the most successful club in Europe.
The recent European night at Santiago Bernabeu represented shades of the Bayern Munich aggregate defeat of 2012, when the Whites of Madrid were forced to accept defeat via the lottery of penalty shootout.
This time around it was another German opposition in the form of Borussia Dortmund, who had inflicted defeat upon the Spanish side, leaving them on the brink of elimination after a master-class first leg display in the Signal Iduna Park.
Big things were expected from Real Madrid but the duck of the score-line broke too late to instil any hopes in the team, with a goal in the 83rd minute from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Karim-Benzema-c20350.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sergio-Ramos-c33096 made it two and brought the home side within boundaries of a miracle comeback as he riffled in a thunder bolt from close range, but the final piece of the jigsaw was not to be pulled in place and it was Dortmund who made the cut to the final
at Wembley.
Jose Mourinho’s failure to lead Madrid to a Champions League crown for the past three seasons has attracted a lot of criticism from the media, but the manager believes that his record holds a lot of credits and needs not to be questioned.
"My work is never valued in absolute terms but in terms of what I have achieved and that's my fault because I have won so much that the expectations are always much higher than what I am able to achieve later on.
"You journalists will want to wipe me off the list but you won't be able to - only when there is a team which wins 101 points [in La Liga]. Twenty years without winning the Copa - and we won it. The records of (100 points, 121 goals) are mine, it can't be deleted
and it doesn't feed my ego."
Real Madrid now prepare to have a final say for a trophy in the season as the Spanish Champions take on city rivals Atletico Madrid in the Copa Del Rey final.
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