‘perfect’ first-half showing
moment with seven matches to go, points are gold.
“We got the points and are ready to fight to stay in second position.” Mourinho was in upbeat mood after the win, inviting friend Carvalhal into his press conference when he saw him outside the room. “Come on, come on – give cakes to the guys,” Mourinho told the Swansea boss with a laugh, in reference to the Portuguese cake his compatriot handed out to reporters ahead of the game. The United boss continued to speak alongside the Swansea boss, who eventually took to the main seat in the Old Trafford press conference room to explain he had no arguments about the outcome.
“I think Manchester United deserved the win,” said Carvalhal.
“It is so clear when Manchester United started to play with such a high intensity.
“Our problem was it was difficult to control Paul Pogba and Nemanja Matic because they started to control the game with those two players. We can’t put pressure on them.
“And because we can’t put pressure on them, we play too much near our area and with the players that they have between the lines they create problems.”
MAN utd:
De Gea 6; Valencia 6, Young 7, Smalling 7, Lindelof 7; Matic 7, Pogba 7; Mata 7 (Mctominay 90) , Lingard 7 (Herrera 76) , Sanchez 8 (Rashford 75, 6) ; Lukaku 7. Unused subs – Pereira, Bailly, Martial, Shaw.
SWANSEA City:
Fabianski 6; Van Der Hoorn 6, Fernandez 5, Mawson 6; Naughton 6, Olsson 6, King 5, Ki 5 (Carroll 46, 4) , Clucas 5 (Routledge 56, 5) ; Dyer 4 (Abraham 46, 6) , Ayew 5. Unused subs – Nordfeldt, Narsingh, Bartley, Roberts.