Jose Mourinho praised Luis Suarez for celebrating his goal against Liverpool

Former Manchester United head coach Jose Mourinho has admitted he ‘loved’ Luis Suarez’s performance in Barcelona’s Champions League victory over Liverpool and praised the Uruguayan for showing no emotion towards his former club. Suarez opened the scoring in Barca’s 3-0 victory at Camp Nou, while Lionel Messi struck two more goals to give Barcelona an advantage to seal to the final. Suarez was criticized by Liverpool fans for celebrating his goal, however, Mourinho has defended Suarez’s actions and insists the Uruguayan’s history with Liverpool should have been put aside. “Luis did something which is good and I love it,” Mourinho told RT. “Many players today in football, they play and sometimes, even playing which is an emotional moment, and is a moment we are paid for, they still care with the image and some moments where people can say, ‘oh, nice fair play’ and, ‘oh, nice, he’s playing against the team where he played for a few years and where he was loved’. “That has nothing to do with this 90 minutes. And for this 90 minutes he forgot that he played for Liverpool. The only thing he was focused on was that match, his job, go to the final, win the Champions League. ‘He scored a goal, celebrated the goal, he was fighting people, players he probably loves, players who are probably on the phone [to him] tonight. “Incredible, incredible attitude. Messi is phenomenal, but to have next to him that kind of player, that can – it’s not the word I want to use – do the dirty work. ‘But it’s not dirty, it’s important work, and on top of that work, the goal is phenomenal. You can look and say Matip is attracted by the ball, Van Dijk let him make the movement and lost him, but the movement is phenomenal. He makes a little first movement, which is almost a disguised movement, one metre here and I bring the defender with me, at least mentally because the defender thinks I’m going in that direction, and now I’m going to attack the space in front and goodbye.”

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