However, they’ve drawn 11 matches this season.
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Everton manager Ronald Koeman was left to rue his side’s failure to score a second goal with a couple of promising second-half counter-attacks.
Today’s Manchester United-Everton game could’ve been a big deal to either team. He has talent, I want to help him.
“Zlatan Ibrahimovic will play for Galaxy”.
At the other end of the table, Sunderland moved closer to what seems nearly inevitable relegation, beaten 2-0 at Leicester City whose new manager Craig Shakespeare could celebrate a fifth successive league win since taking over from Claudio Ranieri.
Ten of those games have been draws, though, and United is still struggling to bridge that gap to the top four where Chelsea, Tottenham, Liverpool and Manchester City reside.
“Probably I have one, two, three years so everything depends on what you want and what the club wants, what the vision of the club is because I said from day one I didn’t come here to waste time, I came here to win”. But that’s a tough mountain to climb. Still, for the richest club in the world, it looks like it’s Europa League title or bust.
If confirmed, this report of Fox Sport would be more shocking than Ibrahhimovic’s decision to leave PSG last season.
“Maybe in the first 10 or 15 minutes, United were the better team”.
It was another unconvincing display by the hosts, who lacked a coherent shape throughout, and will now surely put all their eggs into the Europa League basket as they seek a route into next season’s Champions League.
Mourinho was not particularly impressed with Shaw’s performance.
“I go with mathematics”.
“But only if the results in the next matches put us in the situation where mathematically it becomes nearly impossible [to finish in the top four]”, he added. Even not scoring the second, I was comfortable because I know we need to defend. This week is easy. Both teams were hoping to run their respective win streaks out to three matches, but instead they have to start all over from scratch. But they may be the final two matches that the Red Devils commit everything they have to the Premier League.
United have won just six top-flight games on home turf this season and face an uphill battle to secure a return to the Champions League next season.
When asked whether they will be able to make the top four, Mourinho replied: “More hard, very difficult”.
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It’s a clash of the disappointingly diminished this evening, as an injury-blighted Everton come to Old Trafford to take on an injury-blighted Manchester United.
