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[–]Bangar24Beckham[S] 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Comments from Mourinho's post-match interview and press conference:


A GOOD WIN AGAINST A SAD TEAM

"The result was good," Jose said. "We resisted the results of yesterday when Manchester City and Liverpool won, they left us in a position of 'yes' or 'no'. It was 'yes'. We got three points and it was a solid display.

"It was against a team that is sad, it's normal. Against a team that is sad, if you score before then it's difficult for them to react. You could feel the negative feeling around the team. That is felt with a team is close to relegation. We started positively. I’m not saying very aggressive in terms of the intensity of our game but comfortable and in control. When you score a goal, you play against a sad team. And when you score before them, normally in these circumstances, you kill the match and in the second half, with the second goal, against 10 men, it was comfortable. Not a brilliant performance but a comfortable one."

PLEASED FOR LUKE SHAW

“I took Shaw off because of the yellow card and the pressure from the crowd," Jose said, discussing the recalled left-back. "It was good to protect him but it was also good for him to play one hour with a good solid performance and no mistakes, so I'm really pleased for him.”

THE IMPORTANCE OF ZLATAN'S GOAL

“It was open at 0-0. We were in control without danger. We were playing quite compact and solid. You need these players to break it. Every team has a couple of them. Zlatan did that. It’s very important and one more goal for him is a beautiful number that he’s getting [28 goals this season]. We felt the game was in our pocket. In this beautiful weather, the game was played at a more slow intensity.”

NOT ALWAYS EASY AGAINST 10 MEN

“When the 10 men are not losing they can close, they can be more defensive, they can park the bus and defend. When they are losing and they have one player less, they try to attack, they have one player less, they open more spaces and normally you win the game.”

TIMING OF SECOND GOAL WAS PERFECT

“I told them in the second half we had to go to kill the game. It was under control but we needed the second goal to kill mentally the opponent. But I didn’t expect that it was after one minute. I was thinking it had to be after a solid period of intensity for our attacking football. But we started the game, scored a goal and killed it.”

[–]Pigeon_AssholeGerrard = 0 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hopefully the team will be full of confidence going into the next few matches. If we manage to beat Chelsea on Sunday, its gonna be epic.

Glad to see Rashfrod back on the score sheet.

[–]ChickenAllDayEvryDayBlind 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'll take the win, still much to improve attacking wise but good to score 3 in one game and get some momentum going ahead of Europa on Thursday.

Shaw looked to have got some confidence back and great to see Rash on the score sheet.

[–]tocitusMemphis 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

At the time I thought Larsson's red card was really harsh but then the more I have seen of it since (MoTD had a good angle) the more I realised how dangerous it actually was. If it had connected with Herrera then it could have been really bad and I don't think red cards should only come with injuries, we should be looking at stopping players from committing those challenges in the first place. e.g. I still think the tackle on Shaw when he broke his leg was dangerous and should have been punished to try to dissuade players from making those kind of full-blooded tackles.

Anyway the match itself was fine. We started poorly and slowly and Sunderland looked well up for it. Anichebe was doing a decent enough job up front for them and, for about 10 mins, I was impressed with them. Then we scored out of nothing, Larsson was sent off and with the goal 45 secs after the restart, it basically became a training exercise.

The third goal kind of showed how I want us to set up from an attacking point of view - Rashford on one side of Ibra and Martial on the other. If we can get Shaw up to match fitness and Valencia back bombing up his wing then we'd have a pretty balanced and strong attack with them overlapping.

Behind that front 3 we could have Pogba and Herrera sitting behind Mkhi in games against weaker opposition, or move Mkhi up instead of Rashford and bring in Carrick for the strong opposition.

More than anything though, I want to see some cohesiveness in the starting XIs and some kind of regular system.