{"id":24482,"date":"2026-01-12T00:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/jose-mourinho-benfica-players-stay-at-training-ground-after-braga\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T00:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:08:24","slug":"jose-mourinho-benfica-players-stay-at-training-ground-after-braga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/jose-mourinho-benfica-players-stay-at-training-ground-after-braga\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Mourinho: Benfica players stay at training ground after Braga"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Jose Mourinho took his players to stay at Benfica’s training ground after they lost against Braga in the League Cup semi-finals – and the Portuguese manager said he hoped they “don’t sleep and instead think a lot”.<\/b><\/p>\n

Benfica lost Wednesday’s tie 3-1 and ended the game with 10 men when former Manchester City defender Nicolas Otamendi was sent off.<\/p>\n

Mourinho, who was appointed manager in September,<\/a> suggested his players would be staying at the club’s training base in Seixal for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

“The players will sleep in Seixal, and on Thursday there is training, and the day after there’s training,” Mourinho said at a news conference after the Braga defeat.<\/p>\n

“Since there’s no final on Saturday, our next game is against Porto next Wednesday. <\/p>\n

“When we arrive in Seixal [on Wednesday], everyone will go to their rooms. I hope the players sleep as well as I do, which is to say that they don’t sleep at all. <\/p>\n

“That’s what I wish for them. That they don’t sleep and instead think a lot, like I’m going to think.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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