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Mourinho: Passive Real Madrid unhappy and low on confidence

Former Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho says his old team looks unhappy.

Mourinho made the observation after Real's defeat to Barcelona on Saturday.

He said: "It was not a happy performance. It was not the performance of a happy team. It was not the performance of a team with a lot of faith and self-esteem. They are going through a bad series of results, especially during the match in the Copa del Rey, and they are currently in a trough.

"Real does not seem able to find the intensity in the very big games. They were passive. They could not bring to the game what I used to call the temperature of big games. They were passive. I do not want to talk about a bad performance, but it's not their best performance. I think it's just a too soft performance."

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