Manchester United are undefeated in their last 11 Premier League games and their last 17 across all competitions. However, their last two league games are draws, and they’re now tied with Middlesbrough for the league lead in that category with eight.
Despite the Red Devils red hot run they’re only in sixth place, and that’s because of
1.) the dreadful October they had
2.) they still drop points too often.
United had a phenomenal run from mid-November to mid-January, but they’re still on the outside looking in for the top four.
In order to correct that, Manager Jose Mourinho needs to take those one point outings and turn them into threes.
Mourinho said after the 1-1 draw with Stoke City:
“A top team has to be much more clinical. You have to get the first chance of the match and ‘bang,’ 1-0. When you are winning by a goal then, the next chance, ‘boom’ — kill the opponent. And we are not doing that enough.
“We did that in a couple of matches but even in the matches that we won, if I remember for example Middlesbrough and Crystal Palace, it is always hard to score goals.”
During his postgame press conference, the Portugese continued:
“I’ve been saying for a long, long time that one day we will score every chance of the match and somebody will go home with six or seven goals in the basket but the reality is that day never arrives and we always struggle so much to score goals.”
“We hit the post, the goalkeeper saves, we miss the easy chance, and then in the end, we risk losing the match — by scoring an own goal — and we had to wait until minute 90-something to equalize.”
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