DBasia.news – Jose Mourinho changed his target in a short period. Once optimistic to bring Manchester United to the top-4 Premier League, now he said that The Special One needs a miracle to do that.
Manchester United haven’t performed consistently. Recently, Romelu Lukaku and friends just played 2-2 against the red zone club, Southampton.
The result makes Mourinho pessimistic Manchester United could finish top-4. According to some news, the situation placed him on the edge.
“Until last year I said that finishing second was a fantastic thing because of the qualities we had in comparison to the quality of the other teams that are fighting for the top four,” Mourinho said cited by RedeTV.
“And this year with more problems that we have had, it proves what I said at the beginning of the season, that it would be a very difficult season. Try to win as many points as possible and try (to achieve) almost the miracle of finishing fourth.”
Jose Mourinho once said what Manchester United experiencing right now is related to the weak defensive line. Moreover, The Red Devils failed to sign the new defender in the last transfer market. Consequently, Mourinho was forced to place Nemanja Matic and Scott McTominay to play in the back.
“In the absence of more central defenders to play, we had to occupy that area with players who are midfielders, who do not know how to play in defense, who have no characteristics to play in the defense,” Mourinho said.
“But who occupied that area in a zonal way, tried to hide the weaknesses that everyone knew we had,” said the former Inter Milan coach.
Jose Mourinho would have a difficult match against Arsenal during the 15th-week of 2018-2019 Premier League at Old Trafford Stadium, Thursday (6/12). Currently, The Gunners are 8 points higher Manchester United.