Jose Mourinho was sent off for a third time this season as his Roma side was defeated 2-1 by Cremonese. <br /><br />The Portuguese boss saw red just seconds into the second half after clashing with the fourth official. <br /><br />He was shown his marching orders for dissent by referee Marco Piccinini and then proceeded to continue to point at the fourth official and insist 'It's him, it's him' in protest. <br /><br />Mourinho's team was already 1-0 down when he received his marching orders after Frank Tsadjout had opened the scoring for relegation-threatened Cremonese. <br /><br />Leonardo Spinazzola leveled the game for Roma with just under twenty minutes to go, before a Daniel Ciofani penalty saw the home side take all three points - and record their first Serie A win for 27 years. <br /><br />The former Premier League-winning boss had to watch the second-half events from the stands, where he joined assistant Salvatore Foti, who himself was serving a touchline ban for using insults from when the two sides met in the Coppa Italia.<br /><br />Foti's presence in the stands allowed Mourinho to pull out one of his old tricks to communicate with the bench. <br /><br />Rather than just phone down his instructions, he scribbled down notes and used his assistant to deliver his comments to the dugout. <br /><br />A win for Roma would have put them back into the Champions League spots, but they remain a point outside the top four, behind city rivals Lazio. Mourinho will now be absent for Sunday's crunch game against Juventus. <br /><br />They also remain in contention for this season's Europa League and face Spanish side Real Sociedad in the last 16 next month. <br /><br />As for Cremonese, the victory marked their first league win of the season and their first top-flight win since March 1996. It's also the second time they've beaten Roma this season, after dumping Mourinho out of the Coppa Italia.
