Mourinho given warning
JOSE MOURINHO’S paymasters won’t be happy with his latest touchline antics. That’s the warning to the Portuguese from former Arsenal star Martin Keown.
Mourinho was sent to the Old Trafford stands for the second time this season in the 1-1 draw with West Ham yesterday.
The Portuguese reacted angrily to Paul Pogba being booked for diving and was dismissed after kicking over a water bottle.
“The hierarchy at his football club will not be happy with the image he’s creating”
Martin Keown on Man United’s reaction to Jose Mourinho’s touchline antics says Man United’s top brass won’t be impressed by their ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE: (Sanchez 12, 90+1, Walcott 53)
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“[It] is a massive overreaction. I don’t get it, he knows he’ll get sent off,” he said on Match of the Day 2.
“He’s in a massive job there – he needs to keep that lid on things. People say ‘Oh you’re an ex-Arsenal player and you don’t want to see Man United do well’.
“No. I want to see good football - they were unlucky today. But their manager… the hierarchy at his football club will not be happy with the image he’s creating now at that football club.
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His manager must have thought so too as he greeted the flourished yellow card by turning around and belting a water bottle down what used to be the players’ entrance at Old Trafford. What followed was predictable and Mourinho made what must now be a familiar journey from dug-out to directors’ box.
His view from the stands would have been an equally familiar one. As they had in so many matches here, Manchester United dominated a game and somehow failed to win it.
“I find it hard to believe our position in the table,” Mourinho had written in his programme notes before berating the tidal wave of ill-luck that has flooded a stadium that once dealt ruthlessly will all comers.
Their position in the table is what it was before kickoff – sixth. However, the fact that the top four all won meant that the gap between the Premier League’s biggest club and the Champions League places is now chose not to start either Wayne Rooney or Henrikh Mkhitaryan, although both looked sharp when they were flung on. Marcus Rashford ought to have scored when oneon-one with the keeper but Darren Randolph kept his nerve, stood his ground and saved with an outstretched boot.
Ibrahimovic, however, was in his element. But for some superb interceptions from Angelo Ogbonna and Cheikhou Kouyate, he might have won the match.
His equaliser was sublime. It seemed a goal the moment Pogba sent in a ball from 30 yards out. Ibrahimovic accelerated away from James Collins. Randolph did not know whether to come for it or leave to his defender.
He remained where he was, forgetting that one of Ibrahimovic’s great qualities is the litheness of his body which he uses as the kind of weapon not even James Bond had in his armoury. From head to net in one touch. – The Independent