United never looked comfortable at Vicarage Road from the moment Anthony Martial, still groggy from an earlier clash of heads, was bundled off the ball in the lead-up to Watford’s opener for Etienne Capoue.
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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho singled out the “phenomenal” Ashley Young for his attitude in the Premier League defeat at Watford.
Watford’s 3-1 victory exposed the brittleness of Mourinho’s expensively assembled team as it tasted success over the record 20-time English champions for the first time in 30 years.
Troy Deeney’s stoppage-time penalty rubbed salted into United’s wounds, but it was United left-back Luke Shaw’s failure to stop Watford’s second that most frustrated Mourinho.
Jose Mourinho has reverted to his full-strength Manchester United line-up for the trip to Watford in the Premier League.
Juan Camilo Zuniga restored Watford’s lead with seven minutes left before Troy Deeney’s penalty condemned Mourinho to a third consecutive defeat for the first time since he was in charge at Porto in 2002.
Guardiola’s men are two points clear at the top following their unbeaten start and Betway go 8-1 that the Citizens finish 2016 undefeated and 33-1 that they go the whole season without losing a league game.
United play Northampton away in the League Cup, can Pogba avoid embarrassment at Sixfields? So far, he hasn’t stamped his authority in the games he’s played just yet, but a player of that quality won’t go missing for too long. Lady Luck you don’t control, referees you don’t control.
“The second half was much better, we got the draw [equalising at 1-1] then, after that, we were the team [who looked likelier to win]”.
Man United started the second half on the front foot and Ibrahimovic had a half-chance in the 47th minute after the ball fell for the striker outside the Watford box, but his effort was always moving wide of the post.
But the breakthrough came at the other end in the 34th minute when Martial – who had previously received a nasty knock to the head – was dispossessed by Miguel Britos in a risky area, with referee Michael Oliver ignoring United claims for a foul.
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“As well as he [Fellaini] has done in the first three or four games, I just can’t understand why Michael Carrick’s here”. Nobody saw me running around the pitch because we were winning a couple of matches and nobody sees me now really depressed. “You are asking me things that I can’t tell you because I don’t know why he came off, if he was injured in his knee, in the ankle or his head”, he said. “I don’t know why he came off, if he was injured in his ankle, knee, head”, Mourinho said.
