He pointed the finger at the players.
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On the red side, Jose Mourinho is discovering the toils David Moyes and Louis van Gaal endured trying to live up to Alex Ferguson’s high achievements during his 26-year reign at United.
“In the eyes of everyone – it doesn’t matter whether you are a Manchester United fan or a Watford fan or whatever – it was obvious”.
“The third thing is what is my hands, which is the improvement of the team and the individuals”.
Mourinho said: “The first Man City goal and this second goal against Watford – you can find an incredible similarity, which is [Aleksandar] Kolarov has the ball in a hard situation in the corner and my players, instead of going up to press they decide to give space”. This is a tactical thing but is also a mental attitude and it’s something that you don’t go there and make everything become flawless in a couple of weeks.
“So we have to improve, no doubt, individually and collectively”.
Interestingly, small section of the United fans felt that Mourinho should now be sacked as a Manchester United manager. He blamed Shaw, while he admitted that the other defenders were culpable in conceding first-half opportunities to Watford that were spurned.
“We’ve had the toughest start of any club this season and to come out of that with seven points, that’s massive for a club like us”, he said.
Our mistakes proved costly “I can not control the referee and the lucky moments”.
Since then the Special One has become the Beaten One, defeated in 11 of his past 21 Premier League games with Chelsea and Manchester United.
Most worryingly of all, is that for all the money spent, for all the big names acquired, United are now so heavily reliant on a fearless 18-year-old from the academy.
If not Manchester United could be missing out on the top-four again and face another season out of the Champions League. Both players received treatment but they continued.
With numerous chances in the first half, Mazzarri’s men should have been further ahead at the break.
United’s profligacy was punished by Watford immediately as the Hornets scored the first goal through Etienne Capoue.
Watford piled on the misery for Jose Mourinho as Manchester United crashed to a third successive defeat in an embarrassing 3-1 loss at Vicarage Road yesterday.
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The home side should have broken the deadlock after 14 minutes when a mix-up between De Gea and Chris Smalling gifted the ball to Odion Ighalo, who shot wide with the goal at his mercy. That left the Nigeria striker with an open goal, but he somehow failed to find the target. Mourinho opted for a strong-side against Watford after their surprising defeat in the Europa League in the last game. But Watford’s relentlessly physical approach was wearing United down and Anthony Martial needed several minutes treatment after being pole-axed by a clash of heads with Daryl Janmaat.
