Jose Mourinho has cut a frustrating figure at Manchester United bench in recent weeks, after overseeing Man Utd 3rd successive winless run (Derby County, Wolves and Westham, 4th if barren draw with Valencia on UCL match day 2 could be added), Mourinho could not have prayed/hoped for a better days sooner.
Unfortunately and dissapointedly, Mourinho has been throwing blames and tantrum at everybody and anything but himself. Such behaviour is far from being a good managerial skill. Most good Managers takes the blame for the team or better still takes the blame as a team, like the old saying Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno is a Latin phrase that means One for all, all for one.
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Jose Mourinho should have paid more attention to his tactics rather than pointing blames to every direction, if it is not the referee as it was against Westham, it will be Paul Pogba is own player not back tracking enough to defend or Alexi Sanchez and Anthony Marshall below par performance. How long will Mourinho singles out his players or someone for defeat? Pointing accusing finger to your own players do more damage to the team than good. Players under par performance is what mindful managers deal with in the locker room and not the press room.
Looking back at the defeat at the hand of Westham and it has Mourinho wrong tactics and approach fingerprints written all over the script.
Wrong starting eleven; Why Mourinho chose to start Scott McTominay (who has not gotten playing time this season) and Anthony Marshall (who performance has dropped of late) coupled with complete omission of Both Jesse Lingard (pacey and trickery player that can cause ageing Zabaleta some problems) and Alexis Sanchez (who despite is dip in form is still one of United danger men) is a really big surprise and mistake in my opinion.
Absolutely no need for a defence line of back three flanked by two wingbacks against a Westham team who are just beginning to get into their strides. So for me, a bad formation as it were.
Substitutions were a bit faulty, yes! Good decision to bring in Marcus Rashford but not for Lindelof, it should have been for the rookie Scott McTominay whose dilly-dally caused the third goal Utd conceeded.
Manchester United's lost to Westham was more of Mourinho's wrong tactical approach rather than players performance or referee's officiating. He wanted to contain, contain and contain rather than attack and it goes all wrong. In football, "the best form of defence is to attack".
He Mourinho should man up and stop picking on his players and officials for Man Utd under par performances and also make press room less dramatic.
I am @peman85 and i am signing off with this quote from Leslie Calvin "Les" Brown, an American motivational speaker;
"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams".
Thank you all.
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