Man United boss Jose Mourinho concedes title to Chelsea despite victory

Marcus Rashford, Juan Mata, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Jesse Lingard and Ashley Young are other wide players in Mourinho’s squad.

Jose Mourinho argued that hard, silent work in training was the quality that persuaded him to give Anthony Martial his chance against Watford.

“During the game, I kept shouting at him to attack the defenders and go one-on-one”.

“You can not play like some successful teams in the Premier League, but they play with a completely different style”.

Watford’s best chance of the game, and one they really needed to take if they wanted to give themselves any chance of salvaging anything, fell to substitute Daryl Janmaat who should have tapped home M’Baye Niang’s far post cross, but he wastefully missed the target. Some players will leave, some players will come, but in a very natural way.

And Jamie Carragher, also speaking on Sky Sports after the game, said the win was big for United, but admits they are sometimes not scoring as many goals as their dominance warrants.

Mourinho himself was accused of playing defensive football at Chelsea in the second half of the 2014/15 campaign when he led the Blues to the league title.

Ibrahimovic played a fine first-time pass into Martial’s path after good work from Mkhitaryan, and the France global cut back onto his right foot inside the area before slotting a clever finish beneath Gomes’ right hand after fooling the goalkeeper into expecting a shot towards the far post. They are very defensive but there are teams that are defensive and not well organised.

“The first half was unbelievable”.

“They are a very good team, for sure”, the Italian said through an interpreter.

“You can see that he has got a winning mentality – not that we didn’t have that already, but Mourinho has certainly reminded us of that”.

“It is a pity because we started very well”.

“Jose is a manager for whom to win is the most important thing”.

“We started very well”. We should ignore him, as you should all trolls, but he is pretty good at being unignorable.

“Of course, on the last pass in their area we should have done a bit better”.

During a disastrous 2015-16 season where the Blues finished 10 in the Premier League, Willian was the only Chelsea player to emerge with his reputation enhanced.