And manager Mourinho blamed United for being off the pace in the opening period compared to their urgency after the break.
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Football: Manchester United made a bad start to their Europa League campaign.
Jose Mourinho is confident Manchester United will not suffer any hangover after their winning start was halted by galling back-to-back defeats.
Tonny Vilhena powered home the victor after 79 minutes, but Nicolai Jorgensen appeared offside as he broke down the wing before crossing to set up the only goal of the game for Feyenoor to win 1-0.
So I looked at this game, and you can say okay you changed eight players, but I played with a good team, I played with enough good players to win the match.
“I think in the first-half we didn’t have an especially ambitious attitude”.
“It is an important match for us and we must find that motivation that I have found myself already”.
“In the second half, I think we matched that but we need to do that earlier to give ourselves a better platform to win the game”.
“I have to try to pass that motivation to the players because I know that the Europa League is not the big dream of every big player”.
“But obviously when you lose matches the mood, the feeling, is not the same”. I know that the situation is not click your fingers and everybody is flawless.
“I don’t want to go in that direction, I don’t want to personalise it”, he said. I am very pragmatic in my approach to matches and competitions, the next match and next competition we play is always the most important.
“I think on Sunday character.needs to shine through because it’s unacceptable to lose three games in a row”.
“The second half was when they increased intensity and that was when they conceded the goal”.
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A second consecutive loss for Mourinho will not go down well even though he rested key players such as Wayne Rooney and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, even though the Swedish striker came on in the second half as the Portuguese manager made all three substitutions at the same time.
