Mihajlovic angry with Hickey’s sent off
Aaron Hickey was shown a red card after 17 minutes during Bologna’s 1-1 draw with Sassuolo. Mihajlovic’s side went ahead with a strike from Soriano in the 17th minute, however, they had a hard task to defend their lead when they had one man less.
“
What I feel most is anger. When it was 11 against 11, we were dominating. The red card changed everything, but we defended well and barely ran any risks,”
the coach told DAZN.
“I cannot understand how a referee can not even give a foul and then change it several minutes later to a red card. I don’t get it. We had a similar situation with Samir when we were against Udinese, his leg was totally straight and it wasn’t even a yellow card.
“Nobody had complained about the foul, it was all done by the VAR. I am just glad we proved that we were a team and fought to the end.”
Francesco
Caputo
scored the equalizer for the host in the 52
nd
minute. After that,
Bologna
had no choice but to park the bus.
“We were down to 10 against Udinese for a long while and only conceded in stoppages there. What we need to improve when we’re down to 10, and I hope it doesn’t happen often, is to play more.
“We did well defending with 10 men and Sassuolo had a few shots from distance, the goal we conceded was a hopeful effort and a lucky ricochet, but we stayed very deep.
“The way we prepared the game and had started the match, we certainly would’ve done more without that red card. It leaves regrets, especially as last time against Sassuolo we were 3-1 up and lost 4-3. We could’ve had six points against them and got one.
“That’s football for you. It’s true our attitude against Benevento was lacking, so I showed the players a video today before the game telling them the difference between a good performance and a winning one was mentality. It’s not physical, it’s not tactical or technical, it’s the mental attitude.”
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