Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho is back in winning ways
Mourinho watched his Manchester United side win 2-1 at West Brom yesterday and then insisted they will not let up in the race for the title despite the runaway leaders maintaining their 11-point gap over their local rivals at the top.
United manager Mourinho would not be drawn on a video leaked at the weekend of City players taunting United after Pep Guardiola’s side beat Tottenham on Saturday.
Guardiola’s squad could be heard singing ‘park the bus’ in a jibe at United’s style of play.
But Mourinho reiterated that United are not yet ready to throw in the towel.
“I know that the questions are always coming in the same direction and I keep saying the same,” said Mourinho.
“Our last match in the Premier League is Watford at Old Trafford, in mid-May, and until then in every match we go – every match we will try to win.
I know that the questions are always coming in the same direction and I keep saying the same
Manchester United Jose Mourinho
“If people ask that question to us and then you do it to the third team and the fourth and to the fifth and to the sixth, probably they will disappear.
“Probably they want to go on holidays. We don’t want to go on holidays. We want to play until the last match.”
The leaked City video emerged on social media before Manchester United’s victory at the Hawthorns but Mourinho urged pundits to form their own judgements.
“I didn’t see, I didn’t watch,” he said. “I am not interested in doing that. You are the ones to make your evaluations, your comments. For me, nothing.”
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Mourinho will check today on the fitness of captain Antonio Valencia after he limped off with a sore hamstring after 66 minutes at The Hawthorns.
The full-back will be assessed ahead of United’s Carabao Cup trip to Bristol City on Wednesday and next Saturday’s Premier League game at Leicester.
“The Valencia injury is what I call a December injury,” said Mourinho. “It is an injury of the accumulation of fatigue. It is a muscular one – hamstring. Big, small, medium? I don’t know.
“He is an experienced guy who will know not to let it go to difficult limits. But it is an injury of fatigue – everyone in the Premier League, especially the ones with more accumulation of cups and European cups, are at risk.”