The team created many chances and should have won.
At the same time, the inability of the team to keep possession against 10 men is partly on Jose.
He doesn't seem to have the passion and fight in him that he has had in previous years. Old Mourinho would have taken control of the Smalling injury situation and got the defence organised.What makes you think that?
So annoyed by mourinhos obsession to do this. He's literally the best player in our team at keeping a calm head and keeping the ball when needed or picking the right pass. He never trusts him though when we start defending. Because he's small. So dumb.
He doesn't seem to have the passion and fight in him that he has had in previous years. Old Mourinho would have taken control of the Smalling injury situation and got the defence organised.
We're at the stage of the Mourinho managerial life cycle when he starts to pick fights and blame players. It's happened at his previous jobs but normally not so soon.
I'm sick of reading after every bad performance and/or result "This is not Mourinho's fault this time".. can someone please tell me what results this season was Mourinho's fault please? it is like he is blameless for everything.. our approach at sitting back when winning etc is on him.
You win as a team and lose as a team, but always the buck stops with the manager.
However, it is his fault that he inherited two really exciting attacking talents in Rashford and Martial and he hasn't improved them, it is his fault that he decided to bring on our 2 most out of form players and it is his fault that we have no idea of how to keep the ball and kill the game in the latter stages which means it becomes a case of just hoping we can head balls away (which is particularly fecking stupid when your best defender in the air is clearly injured). It cost us repeatedly last season, it nearly cost us last week against a dreadful West Brom side and it cost us again today.
According to the Sky commentators, it was Phil Jones trying to get the defence organised.He tried to though. He told Lindelof to go in at CB and for Herrera to play RB, people have said though that Herrera refused.
According to the Sky commentators, it was Phil Jones trying to get the defence organised.
Rashford got 8 in 18 once he came into the team under Van Gaal and looked bright, inventive and full of confidence. He has 1 more goal in 11 more games this season and his overall play is arguably worse. Martial also looks less threatening than he did under Van Gaal albeit more than he did in his first season under Mourinho where he was mostly coming on as a sub. I think it's pretty clear that they haven't developed in the last 18 months in the manner that you would expect of two such exciting prospects .Not a fan of either of them, but they are having their most productive season atm (bar Martial's first season).
I really hope things will work out well with Mourinho, but we know the usual trends. He always start well in clubs and hit the peak during the second season a lot of the times. Then in the third season or near the end of the second season things start to go down. I see the same thing really happening here and so I don't think mentally he will turn things around. Hopefully it don't get too ugly.
My thoughts as well. He has never been in a situation like this. Every second season at every club he was well on course to win the league at this point of the season. Now he has to show different qualities.
I'm sick of reading after every bad performance and/or result "This is not Mourinho's fault this time".. can someone please tell me what results this season was Mourinho's fault please? it is like he is blameless for everything.. our approach at sitting back when winning etc is on him.
You win as a team and lose as a team, but always the buck stops with the manager.
Why the hell he told the player at half time its an easy match to win? Then the player reacted the way he said. On the winning position then careless and thought they would finish the game easily.
If Jose’s tactics get the players to map out chance after chance then his job is done. It’s down to the players themselves to finish chances.
We ain’t even talking about half chances here, we are talking about chances any of us here would have buried with their eyes closed.
The manager didn’t park the bus....it was a lively game from start to finish with United controlling the game until players started taking the game for granted. Players should take responsibility for once.
Who else would he have played instead? Why do people like blaming the wrong person? If Martial, Lingard and Rashford can’t finish those chances at this level then we should all give up.
Jose went with the right tactics. There was no time today we played defensive. Rojo/Darmian were on the bench, if Jose really wanted to be negative, he could have sent either of them on to shore the game up.
The players need to take responsibility particularly Rashford. This was on him. He knew Smalling was injured and one man advantage was gone. He could have kept the ball in the corner flag, waste time, faff around, etc but he kept giving the ball away.
Same people blaming him today would not have said a word if Lingard and Martial bury their piss easy chances.
He tried to though. He told Lindelof to go in at CB and for Herrera to play RB, people have said though that Herrera refused.
Don’t forget if Rashford had a brain nobody would be blaming him too. But you are his mother or something.
What are you even talking about? You dont like Rashford ok, don't quote me about it.
Yes I didn’t like his last few performances whilst you have been non stop defensive about him. So is he related to you?
Well then, Herrera should get fined and sent to the fecking stands if their is an iota of truth to that.
Martial, Lingard and Rashford all missed absolute sitters. Every single one of those chances should have been a goal. Mhiki also blew a great chance.
The managers’ tactics got us to a position where we should have scored at least 6 goals today. What the hell else is he supposed to do? Jose could win us the quadruple and some fans would still hate him, this bizarre hatred of the man knows no bounds amongst our fan base apparently.
I agree. It was discussed by the Sky pundits as well apparently, Neville specifically. Very uncharacteristic for someone like Herrera who always seemingly puts the team first.
