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Jose Mourinho was sent off during Roma\u2019s 1-0 defeat to Atalanta for protesting the referee\u2019s decision not to award a penalty to his side.<\/p>\n
Mourinho said his players should dive to win more penalties after his side were denied a spot-kick in their 1-0 defeat to Atalanta on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Mourinho was sent off for dissent after referee Daniele Chiffi waved away calls for a penalty following a coming-together between Roma\u2019s Nicolo Zaniolo and Atalanta\u2019s Caleb Okoli.<\/p>\n
Roma were unable to find a reply to Giorgio Scalvini\u2019s 35th-minute goal, and afterwards Mourinho suggested they would have had better luck had Zaniolo not tried to stay on his feet.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a very clear penalty,\u201d Mourinho said. \u201cI asked the referee afterwards why, and asked him to be clear with me that it was because Zaniolo did not go down.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo therefore I have to change my advice to my players, I have to tell them don\u2019t try to stay on your feet, don\u2019t play the ball, be a clown the way many who dive like they\u2019re in a swimming pool do in this league, because that is evidently how you get penalties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defeat at the Stadio Olimpico left Roma sixth in the Serie A table, with 13 points from their opening seven games.<\/p>\n
Paulo Dybala pulled out of the warm-up with injury, and Mourinho said his side missed the Argentina international\u2019s incisive play.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt went badly because we lost a game that we should\u2019ve won easily, considering the way we played,\u201d Mourinho said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we can imagine this domination we had in the final third, with many chances created, we can speculate that with Paulo on the field it might\u2019ve been different.\u201d<\/p>\n
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