Manchester United Manager Jose Mourinho has definitely been known to proverbially “park the bus” on an opponent here and there. Thus, when it happens to him, there isn’t much he can really say without looking very hypocritical. United drew at AFC Bournemouth today 1-1, due to a first half where United dominated but didn’t get/convert their chances.
In the second half, the Red Devils were just awful, and unable to overcome the Cherries’ (who were then playing with only ten men) desire to play for a tie, and not a win.
At least that’s the story from the Jose Mourinho post match interview. Credit the Special One, he did not take issue with the Cherries playing super-conservative and extremely pragmatic. Here’s the video below:
MUTV: Jose Mourinho on today's game. #MUFC #MUNBOU pic.twitter.com/05p5daZAMz
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) March 4, 2017
“More of the same, incredible number of chances that we missed, man of the match- opponent’s goalkeeper,” said Mourinho.
“Amazing football in the first half, a first half that should have been three or four nil, I don’t know how it ends 1-1; and then a second half where we lost some of the quality and the dimension of the football we had in the first half, against an opponent that had one man less.”
“I am not (a) critic of that they decided to give up and just to defend, to try and keep that result, and we were not good enough to materialize opportunities, so as a result, we’re punished; punished a lot.”
It’s just absolutely unacceptable, on all levels, how the men of Mourinho “achieved” just a draw against the lowly Cherries; especially so when Bournemouth were playing with a man down for so long.
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