Jose Mourinho always has something to say.The Portuguese said Manchester City had “everything nice and easy” in their games before the Manchester derby.
Premier League champions and current leaders City beat bitter rivals and last season’s runners-up Manchester United 3-1 on Sunday.
You can read 16 Conclusions on a result that leaves United eighth in the Premier League table with a negative goal difference after 12 games.
Mourinho, who insisted that United did not put in “a bad performance”, was eager to point out how comfortable City’s run-in before the match at the Etihad Stadium was in comparison to United’s difficult fixture list.
“It was a week where Manchester City played at home three matches, and we play three matches away,” he said.
“A week where they enjoy 6-0, 6-1 victories, relaxed, no pressure, no mental effort, everything nice and easy, and we played two matches away, difficult ones, where the second one was like a final for us against one of the best teams in Europe, a game that demanded from us everything we had to give, not just physically but also mentally.”
Mourinho used the example of Luke Shaw to prove his point, saying that the left-back’s mistake in the build-up to the first goal was due to “mental fatigue”.
“A kid that made a mistake for the first goal is playing so, so, so, so well and last season he was playing one match every three months and in this moment he is playing every game for 90 minutes, so when I speak about physical fatigue, mental fatigue that leads to mistakes during the game that’s what I mean,” he said.
“The game against Juventus was hard by the physical and mental point of view but I am with my players and even with my players that today made mistakes that led to Manchester City’s goals.
“We are together, we are not going to be affected by this. I am just sorry we don’t play the next match soon and have to wait 13 days for that but we are improving, we are together and go together until the end.”
The Red Devils are still marching on.Thats the United together spirit.