Watford served one of the biggest and unexpected surprises of the new season, defeating Manchester United with 3-1.
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Mourinho has heavily criticised the club’s youngsters for the recent run of poor form – blaming Luke Shaw for Watford’s second goal after slating Jesse Lingard’s performance in the Manchester derby defeat earlier this month.
Spain global Mata, writing in a blog on the United website, has sought to put a positive spin on the team’s hard situation. Perhaps his glory days are behind him, but one thing is for sure, Rooney can do better and should pull up his socks.
“We need positive people to give us positive feelings because obviously the next time these guys are going on to a football pitch they are – as a normal human being – going to obviously feel the weight of the defeat”. There’s no time for mourning. They just don’t look like a group.
It was Young’s first Premier League appearance of the season and Mourinho was impressed with the desire the 31-year-old showed to succeed. United face League One side Northampton Town in the EFL Cup on Wednesday before hosting the champions Leicester City this weekend. “I’m always concerned when we don’t get the result we want”.
But Atkinson – who led United two FA Cup successes in 1983 and 1985 – does not believe an us-against-the-world approach will work for Mourinho. “It is normal that he is not giving his best yet after the holidays, but he is a player who will make the difference for United through the season”, Zuniga said, while playing down concerns about his inefficiency in middle of the park along Marouane Fellaini.
Mourinho admits that individual mistakes are costing his team.
“Yes, it (the mood) is low, but we are men and we must stand up together and show ourselves”, the Belgium global told MUTV.
“It was an obvious situation but it is something I can not control”. Gomes makes a phenomenal save and the lucky moments again are not something we can control. The Colombian revealed manager Walter Mazzarri told his charges to focus on minimising the talent of Mourinho’s players to win the game.
United levelled midway through the second half when Marcus Rashford, making his first Premier League start of the season, poked into the hosts’ net from close-range.
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Tottenham Hotspur labored to a 1-0 win over David Moyes’s Sunderland at White Hart Lane, courtesy Harry Kane’s goal in the second half. We kept the ball, created chances and played forward.
