Jose Mourinho has hit back at his critics describing them as “Football Einstiens” after ending a hard week with Manchester United with a 3-1 victory over Northampton Town on Wednesday. There are two players in particular with surnames beginning with “R” in the team and they’re inclusion seem to be cause of most of the anger among Red Devils supporters.
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United faced unexpected scrutiny for their cup clash at League One Northampton after three successive defeats, yet Mourinho’s men progressed with a 3-1 win, before being drawn against their neighbours in the next stage of the competition.
“Two weeks ago we were very disappointed, because we lost in front of our fans against our city opponents”.
“It is disappointing but from their effort I can’t complain with that at all”, the Cobblers boss said.
But things began to look differently with home defeat to likely title rivals, Manchester City, on September 10; disappointing performances against a Netherlands side Feyenoord in the Europa League; and another loss to Watford in the Premier League. “I should be waiting for you to speak about (them) – some with honest vision, some with dishonest vision”, he said.
We had a good start with the first three or four games of the season and we want to get back to winning.
“I’ve done that (played in different positions) throughout my career”.
“The cup games against lower-league teams can be hard. In the second half, we didn’t stop until we scored”.
Markus Henriksen saw Hull past Stoke 2-1, having also set up Ryan Mason’s equaliser after Marko Arnautovic’s thumping opener.
“We know we have controlled the game and when you control the game, that’s when midfielders control the ball, control the game as well”.
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Guardiola gave a first start of the season to captain Vincent Kompany, who underwent thigh surgery in May, but the Belgium centre-back had to go off late on after appearing to injure himself.
