Jose Mourinho fumes at Benfica players, wanted to make nine subs

"In the first half, Benfica didn't play, and worse than not playing, Benfica wasn't on the field, And worse than not being on the field was having so many players with an attitude that is not acceptable even in training. Because in training we compete so much that I can't even remember a single training session where the attitude was what we had today. Right from the first minute, there were absolutely ridiculous turnovers."

"The first half was so bad that at halftime I told the players I was going to change four -- I wasn't going to change five because I couldn't play 45 minutes without a substitution up my sleeve -- but I would have liked to change nine. In the second half, we didn't change nine players, but we changed four, and those four gave the team a completely different attitude. They helped the team to be much more pressing, much more intense, much more dynamic."

Benfica required late goals from Richard Ríos and Vangelis Pavlidis to beat third-tier Atlético CP 2-0 in the fourth round of the Taça de Portugal. José Mourinho criticized the players' first-half attitude as unacceptable, citing ridiculous turnovers and a lack of presence on the field. Mourinho revealed he wanted to make nine substitutions at halftime but made four; those changes increased pressing, intensity and dynamism and helped secure the win. Benfica sit third in Liga Portugal behind Porto and Sporting and have lost all four Champions League group games since Mourinho joined earlier this year.

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