Jose Mourinho told his Manchester United players he was only thinking about victory even when they were trailing at half-time during Saturdays incident packed Premier League clash against Chelsea.
Antonio Rudigers 21st minute header powered Chelsea into the lead, but United rallied after the break and were just seconds away from recording a rare win at Stamford Bridge, courtesy of two sublimely taken Anthony Martial goals.
Ross Barkleys dramatic injury time equaliser preserved Maurizio Sarris unbeaten start to his Chelsea tenure and sparked an ugly touchline fracas after assistant coach Marco Ianni taunted Mourinho during wild celebrations.
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Mourinho admitted afterwards the loss of two points represented a bitter pill to swallow given how well he thought his side had performed.
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He said: For the past 20 years when Manchester United leaves this stadium with a point they leave happy and this time we leave sad and frustrated because we played so so well. Its hard to take.
My message [at half time] was that against Newcastle that we needed a huge improvement to get back into the game but today we dont need huge improvement we just needed little details.
We were in the game playing well and in control we just needed to be a little bit more aggressive in the last third, a bit more brave with the players feeling more freedom to express themselves to go in search of the goals.
I told the players at half time I was thinking about winning this game in the second half. The boys were brilliant but in this moment we are frustrated.
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Jose Mourinho told his Manchester United players he was only thinking about victory even when they were trailing at half-time during Saturdays incident packed Premier League clash against Chelsea.
Antonio Rudigers 21st minute header powered Chelsea into the lead, but United rallied after the break and were just seconds away from recording a rare win at Stamford Bridge, courtesy of two sublimely taken Anthony Martial goals.
Ross Barkleys dramatic injury time equaliser preserved Maurizio Sarris unbeaten start to his Chelsea tenure and sparked an ugly touchline fracas after assistant coach Marco Ianni taunted Mourinho during wild celebrations.
More: Football
Mourinho admitted afterwards the loss of two points represented a bitter pill to swallow given how well he thought his side had performed.
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He said: For the past 20 years when Manchester United leaves this stadium with a point they leave happy and this time we leave sad and frustrated because we played so so well. Its hard to take.
My message [at half time] was that against Newcastle that we needed a huge improvement to get back into the game but today we dont need huge improvement we just needed little details.
We were in the game playing well and in control we just needed to be a little bit more aggressive in the last third, a bit more brave with the players feeling more freedom to express themselves to go in search of the goals.
I told the players at half time I was thinking about winning this game in the second half. The boys were brilliant but in this moment we are frustrated.
More: Manchester United FC
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