Substitute Camilo Zuniga scored from his first touch and Troy Deeney netted a penalty in the fifth minute of stoppage time.
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The Red Devils had not lost to Watford in 30 years but were deservedly beaten 3-1 at Vicarage Road, adding to derby defeat at home to Manchester City last weekend and Thursday night’s Europa League loss away to Feyenoord.
After winning their opening three Premier League games, Mourinho had looked to have had a positive impact on Manchester United following the era of Louis van Gaal. Now he’s broke Manchester United hearts.
The visitors were in control after leveling matters, and almost took the lead in the 79th minute but Gomes produced a fine save to keep out Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s towering header.
But United were still disorganised and ineffective, particularly in the first half.
Mourinho, who has never lost three in a row in the same season since leaving Portugal 12 year ago, claimed his side were once again victims of poor decisions.
Harry Kane, who finished the game with an ankle injury, scored the only goal of the game on 59 minutes as Tottenham moved to within four points of leaders Manchester City thanks to a 1-0 win over second-bottom Sunderland.
“Only a few players can do it and one of them was Maradona”. Captain Wayne Rooney, in a deeper midfield role, made little impact.
The win was the second on the bounce for home-side Watford who beat West Ham 4-2 last week at the London Stadium, however for United it meant three defeats on the bounce. The second goal comes from there – completely against the normal tendency of the game.
“The changes that we did today brought us a lot of confidence on the pitch and brought us the final result”.
He even started the move for his goal, playing a one-two with Ibrahimovic, whose cross dropped to Rashford’s feet for an easy finish from five yards out.
When Mourinho was Inter coach in Italy, Mazzarri clashed with the Portuguese as boss of Sampdoria and Napoli.
Odion Ighalo missed a glorious opportunity to put them ahead three minutes later when a awful mix-up between David de Gea and Chris Smalling gave the Nigerian a chance at an open goal from 18 yards out, but he was somehow unable to hit the target.
Daryl Janmaat seized possession and cut the ball back to Capoue on the edge of the penalty area.
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“Collectively and individually, we need to get better”.
