– Mourinho
I expected Man Utd struggles
Manchester United manager José Mourinho says he is not surprised by the team’s poor start to the season. Mourinho said he was expecting a difficult start to the Premier League campaign long before the first ball was kicked this season. The Red Devils suffered backto-back defeats, including a crushing 3-0 loss at home to Tottenham and find themselves in 10th place, with six points from four games, leaving the coach under severe pressure. “I said that in the summer before the competition started, it’s not especially now. Two defeats are two defeats. We still have 35 matches to play. It’s not because we lost six points that this is going to change,” said Mourinho. “I knew this was going to be difficult because I knew that last season was going to be very, very difficult.” The coach said the team’s focus is to take each game as it comes without setting long-term targets.
“We have matches to play every week and the target is always to win. We know that in the Champions League, we have to play the biggest candidate, in Juventus,” said Mourinho. “They were always a big candidate but they transformed themselves into the biggest candidate.”
“They don’t hide the fact their investment made was really to win the Champions League. But even against that big team, we are going to try to win.
“Last season we had a fantastic start and we won the first three matches. We got nine points from three matches, scoring 10 goals.
“Then we lost a couple of matches. Maybe this time we started with two defeats and who knows if we will have a good run that gives us consecutive victories and consecutive points.”