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Yet if the options are Juan Mata, whose anonymity at Brighton was as expert as Lord Lucan’s, and Jesse Lingard, it is illogical to revert to the mixer tactic when someone is incapable of shovelling it. Mourinho needs to think outside the box and Rashford has to try and make the right wing his own rather than running down blind alleys.
Victor Lindelof and Eric Bailly were starting together for just the second time and Bailly, be it positioning, passing or defending, was blameworthy for all three goals while Lindelof remains, as a Mourinho confidant once put it, an ‘unMourinho defender.’
Andreas Pereira, a playmaker converted into a defensive midfielder, was always going to get found out and Nemanja Matic, the after even if someone has not done so well and they’re playing,” Sharpe said.
“So it’s difficult for me to judge on how things are without knowing his relationship with the manager. I would love to see Rashford play more often.
“I think Sanchez has struggled a little bit since he got there, he doesn’t seem to be the same player he was at Arsenal. He gives the ball profile of a signing the United board suddenly abhors, should walk back into the XI against Tottenham next week.
You have to skulk through the Amex tunnel to reach the press conference room and mixed zone, where Reds players blanked the written press. United’s stoic unused substitutes re-emerged for a warm down, Woodward entered the dressing room and spent five minutes in there while Mourinho attended his media commitments, Mata and David de Gea conversed with Martin Montoya and Pogba glowed under the television cameras’ spotlight.
“My attitude wasn’t right enough,” he told Sky Sports.
United supporters may not have appreciated that. away a lot and doesn’t seem to cover the ground he did at Arsenal, I don’t know if he’s been given different instructions by the manager or not.
“It’s a tough call between Rashford and Martial who you would pick on the left.
“I’d probably play one on the left and one on the right and get them to change over during the game at different times in the game to bamboozle full-backs.”