Like the defeat to City, the United boss was frustrated by the officials after Nicolai Jorgensen was not called offside in the build-up to Vilhena’s victor.
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The 26-year-old defender made his first start of the season in Thursday’s Europa League match against Feyenoord and performed admirably as part of a much-changed side at De Kuip, despite the Reds eventually losing 1-0 to Tonny Vilhena’s controversial victor that had more than a hint of offside about it.
Mourinho made eight changes to the line-up that lost 2-1 to Manchester City but very few of them made a difference as they went down to a late strike from Tonny Vilhena.
“I always expect maximum ambition and focus no matter the opponent”, he said. I know the situation is not click your fingers and everybody is flawless.
And precisely in the moment we were feeling they were collapsing, it’s exactly in that moment that we lose the game – and doubly unlucky because he was offside’.
United largely underachieved in Louis van Gaal’s two campaigns at the helm and Mourinho was asked about the difficulty he has in restoring confidence at Old Trafford given their difficulties in recent seasons at a post-match news conference. That’s the normal nature of football players.
It starts minute zero at 0-0 so I think it has nothing to do with the previous two matches. We were trying to win, they were trying not to lose.
“I don’t want to personalise it”.
“We make sure that we stand up and be counted on Sunday because we’ve got a big result to get”.
“Pogba needs a controlling midfielder next to him and I think United need to go back in the transfer market for somebody like that”, Scholes told BT Sport.
“In the second half you saw that Man United want to win with the tempo and the three substitutions, you sensed that they want to leave her with the win”. We didn’t have many chances against us and their goal was a clear offside – we were unfortunate with that.
“We need to get off to a quick start and hopefully get an early goal that would settle us”.
Martial then drilled a shot wide from Darmian’s cross but the Frenchman wasn’t the only one struggling for United and they could easily have fallen behind five minutes before half time.
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