Mourinho chose Mata, Martial and Rashford ahead of Rooney due to pace
“It’s very frustrating to be honest”.
Ian Wright believes that Jose Mourinho has finally found the right balance in the Manchester United midfield to be effective after impressing against Arsenal.
“I said yesterday at the press conference”, Mourinho told ESPN Brasil. It’s my team that plays against another manager’s team.
But he was given a first Premier League start this term after he apologised to Guardiola for “misunderstandings of the past” and the Ivory Coast midfielder made up for lost time as he put City ahead with a powerful strike from inside the penalty area in the 39th minute. “It is insane. If we had won today, then we would have been three points behind Arsenal”, he said.
United had led through Juan Mata, but the result meant another two points dropped for United after winning just one of their previous five Premier League games.
“At this moment, we all know internally we are the unlucky team in the Premier League”, said Mourinho, who was missing injured center-backs Chris Smalling and Eric Bailly, and the suspended Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
It has become a recurring theme for United, who have drawn three consecutive home games in the league for the first time since April 1992. But we managed to get the point we deserved.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan WILL play in Manchester United’s Europa League clash with Feyenoord on Thursday, manager Jose Mourinho has confirmed.
He said: “I don’t want to speak about it”.
“He doesn’t want to be the star of the game, he’s an honest man and a good referee”.
Gunners boss Wenger did not think the incident merited a penalty.
“But it is a lot sort of easier to deal with a result like that when you know you’ve played well, you’ve done everything you can and you deserve to win”.
That Arsene Wenger got what he came for is not in dispute but overseeing a performance characterised by conservatism and lack of adventure flew in the face of what he once presided over in this fixture.
“We were phenomenal. From a defensive point of view we pressed and were very strong when we lost the ball and controlled their counter-attacks and their best players”.
Tottenham forward Harry Kane, who missed nearly two months through injury across September and October, scored twice in the closing minutes against West Ham to recover a 3-2 victory and end his team’s seven-match winless run. Our game was not quick enough in our passing and our penetration was not there as it can be. We had chances to kill the game at 2-0 but out of nothing, 1-1. Tomorrow, between the two managers, we’re speaking about six or seven Premier League titles, I think.