Jose Mourinho stated Friday that he doesn’t imagine Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will probably be utilizing Manchester United‘s 6-1 humbling by Spurs in October as motivation for their Premier League clash on Sunday. Spurs dished out United’s joint heaviest Premier League defeat at Old Trafford because of a tremendous attacking show and a defensive horror present from the house facet. Former United supervisor Mourinho, now accountable for Tottenham, believes the match early within the season, during which United’s Anthony Martial was despatched off, produced a freak outcome.
“I believe that 6-1 doesn’t reflect the reality,” he stated on Friday. “I go much more in the direction of the other two previous matches between us and United.
“We lost 2-1 at Old Trafford, with the penalty, and we draw 1-1 at home last season, also with a penalty. I think this is more the reality.
“If Solskjaer is going to use that result I don’t know. If it was my team losing 6-1 to them I would just say to my guys that it happened once and it’s not going to happen twice.”
United boss Solskjaer described the Old Trafford humbling as his most embarrassing expertise in soccer.
But his facet have made monumental progress since then. They are 11 factors away from sixth-placed Spurs and heading in the right direction to complete as runners-up behind Manchester City.
An enormous issue behind United’s resurgence has been their type on the highway — they haven’t misplaced away within the Premier League since January final yr.
But Mourinho stated that document wouldn’t intimidate his group, who’re determined to interrupt into the highest 4 after an inconsistent season.
“I am not going to comment on the record other than to say congratulations for the record,” stated the Spurs boss.
“We are going to try and win the match. It is the only thing that I can say.
“It is very difficult for many reasons but that record is not going to stop us to think we can win and it is not going to stop us to fight to win.”
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