Irish Sunday Mirror

Even Jose can’t believe it...“i must be

- By ADRIAN KAJUMBA at The Vitality Stadium

briefly forgotten. But there wasn’t much of a celebratio­n from Mourinho.

His quick punch of the air was the reaction of a relieved man.

A boss who knew his side had got away with one.

He even told the Cherries manager Eddie Howe as much at the end.

Mourinho (right), whose team have taken 10 points from their last four games, said: “I told him it should be 5-1 at half-time.

“They were the best team by far.”

But Bournemout­h only had Callum Wilson’s seventh goal of the season to show for their dominance. And the scores were somehow level when Anthony Martial netted for the fourth league game running. After the break it was United’s turn to blunder away a string of chances. That looked set to be costly until Rashford, who turned 21 this week, scored in the 92nd minute to seal a win that, if nothing else, was reward for United’s refusal to give up. Mourinho added: “I said at half-time that I was the luckiest manager in the Premier League in a half when it should be 6-2. “We were defensivel­y awful. [Watching that] people will not believe how hard we worked this

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