Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is disappointed with his club’s Europa loss against Feyenoord, but is still confident.
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However, any doubts were supposedly waved away in typical Mourinho fashion, saying that he was never overly excited by his team’s form to begin with.
“We know that when Man United go to the Europa League we are going to be the team that everyone wants to play against, that everyone wants to fight to their limits which they did”. I know that the situation is not click your fingers and everybody is ideal. We had more intensity than the first half because in the first my players were in control without pushing to try but the second was different. “It was double unlucky because it was a clear offside [for Feyenoord’s goal]”.
The midfielder has been in and out of the team this campaign and has not started a Premier League match since United’s 3-1 win over Bournemouth on August 14.
“Obviously when you lose matches the mood, the feeling, is not the same”. That’s the normal nature of football players.
Pogba again struggled to influence the game, despite being afforded greater licence to get forward in Wayne Rooney’s absence, and lone striker Marcus Rashford was left isolated.
Mourinho called for a reality check – saying even when United were winning he wasn’t the one doing the boasting. We were not trying to win, we were just waiting for the possibility to win or not to lose.
Sky Sports News pundit Paul Merson has offered his predicted score ahead of Manchester United’s Premier League clash with Watford on Sunday afternoon. “Some of the players were playing their first minutes of the season, not many minutes for them”, Mourinho added.
“In the second half they answered my words at half-time but it’s disappointing because it was in our best period that we lost the game”.
“At the right moment we scored the goal – a fantastic goal on the counter-attack”.
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Pogba, signed for a world-record fee of $116 million last month, was given more attacking license than in previous matches by being played alongside Ander Herrera and Morgan Schniederlin in midfield, but was a peripheral figure, especially in the first half.
