José Mourinho retains Manchester United backing despite Brighton defeat

Jose Mourinho’s team can not win the league.

“Irrespective of the manager of Manchester United, they need new centre-backs”.

“Something is going to have to give somewhere along the line”, he added.

“Has he got the players he wanted to get in?” Brighton had settled into the match and started to dictate terms.

Unfortunately for United, next up, Harry Kane and Tottenham Hotspur arrive at Old Trafford.

Brighton made it two in two minutes.

But after 25 minutes Brighton broke through, March producing another risky cross from the left and Murray’s sublime flick steering the ball beyond De Gea and into the corner.

“To me, they look like second-fiddle centre-backs”.

Lukaku’s close-range header looked like it could inspire a fightback, but Gross’ spot-kick, after he was felled by a clumsy challenge from Bailly, secured the three points just before the break.

This led to Manchester United’s second half to be as flat as a shrivelled balloon.

“We made mistakes and they penalised us for them”.

Indeed, United fans expect much more but after Sunday’s defeat, many would be relieved if they can meet their minimum target this season.

“We were punished by the mistakes we made”, he said.

Pogba tried a different approach, hitting a fine shot from distance that produced an equally good response from keeper Mat Ryan, who dived to push it away one-handed.

Despite this, Mourinho was careful not to name any individual players.

Lindelof has endured a more hard start to life in Manchester since arriving from Benfica last summer, with this latest performance adding to his growing list of poor displays in the famous red shirt. Therefore, this time, Jose highlighted the hypocrisy of the media after being pushed to criticise his team. “You go 1-0 down, it’s OK, then 2-0, then 2-1 and you have hope we can score again, but we concede a goal”. “I think of the briefing that Ed Woodward gave journalists about why United…”

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Rigor mortis barely had time to set in after Manchester United’s lifeless performance at Brighton when former United forward Lee Sharpe decided it was time to reach for the scalpel.

Striker Murray took advantage of shoddy defending to superbly flick home the 25th-minute opener, and centre-back Duffy converted two minutes later after the visitors failed to clear a corner.