Jose Mourinho “humble enough to apologize” after 1-1 draw with Torino

A 94th-minute equalizer from Nemanja Matic saved

a precious point at home against Torino as Karol Linetty scored the opener for the visitors in the 55th minute.

The Giallorossi head coach Mourinho saw a red card after protesting the referee's decisions in 88th-minute, forcing him to see Matic's equalizer from the Stadio Olimpico stands as they fell to the seventh place in the Serie A table, 4 points behind the league leaders Napoli.

told his post-match interview with

:

"It was the right decision – my words to the referee deserved a red card.

"I spoke to him after and apologized, but I don’t want to talk about his performance.

"I was humble enough to apologize, but I will leave his performance and the hypothetical influence on the match to you.

"I don't want to talk about what we said, that was private. My words deserved a red card, but I will not judge the referee's performance."

Mourinho hailed his side’s urge to compete against

as

Paulo Dybala

made his injury return. He added: "

There are two games tonight – one until the 70th minute and one after.  Until the 70th, Roma fans wanted to just go home.

"But in the final 20 minutes we created more, perhaps more than we have done in the last four or five games. Why? Easy, because Dybala came on.

"When you have a player like Paulo and he doesn't play, it's different. How many extra points would we have now if Dybala hadn't been injured?

"The break is coming up, it will be the right moment for certain players to look at themselves and try a little self-criticism.

"Despite all these problems, we are a united group. A team that misses a penalty at the 92nd minute is usually dead, but not us, we kept going."

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