JOSE MEN RUN OUT OF STEAM

EVERY KICK, EVERY GOAL, EVERY GAME

JOSE MOURINHO saw his exhausted team throw away two more points against the relegationthreatened Swans.

Leading at the interval thanks to a dodgy Wayne Rooney penalty, awarded after Marcus Rashford flung himself to the ground, United thought they were heading up to third spot.

Victory and United’s top-four fate would have then been in their own hands, as winning every game would have then guaranteed finishing above Liverpool in the race for a Champions League spot.

But Gylfi Sigurdsson scored a magnificent 78th-minute free-kick to earn Swansea a deserved – and possibly priceless – point in their bid for survival.

Even more damaging for United than the dropped points though could be the additions to their injury list.

Problem

Luke Shaw limped out of the game with an ankle problem after just eight minutes.

And when Eric Bailly followed him on the hour, with a suspected hamstring problem, Mourinho was left facing the prospect of visiting Celta Vigo in Thursday’s Europa League semi-final without a single fit central defender.

Mourinho said: “We did not look tired and exhausted, we ARE tired and exhausted.

“You cannot isolate the performance out of the context. This is the ninth match of April, it is not human.

“We have a squad of 22 that is reduced to 13 or 14 players. The players are very tired.”

This was United’s 57th game of the season, 19 more than Swansea.

United were gifted their goal in first-half injury-time when referee Neil Swarbrick decided Lukasz Fabianski had brought down Rashford when diving at his feet.

Swarbrick took an age before pointing to the spot, although replays proved he still got the call wrong with Rashford taking a dive to con the official.

Not that Rooney was complaining as he swept in his first Old Trafford league goal of the season from the penalty spot. This remains a far from vintage United side, despite having now set a new club record of 25 games without defeat in a season. Moments into the second half, an equally far from vintage Rooney could have made it 2-0 but struck a shot straight at the back of team-mate Anthony Martial from eight yards. It was Rooney who then gave away the crucial free-kick for Swansea’s equaliser. He was off the pace as he made a scrappy challenge on Jordan Ayew 25