Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho: We are in a false position
Posted Monday, December 05, 2016 by ESPN
Jose Mourinho says despite conceding late, Manchester United displayed yet again that they were the better team by far.
Jose Mourinho said people were focusing on results rather than performances after Manchester United lost another lead to draw 1-1 at Everton, insisting his team were in a false position.
Mourinho has repeatedly said he is trying to implement a positive and attractive way of playing at Old Trafford and feels United have not got the points they deserve.
They dropped two more when substitute Marouane Fellaini conceded an 89th-minute penalty at Goodison Park and Leighton Baines scored to cancel out Zlatan Ibrahimovic's first-half opener.
Mourinho told Sky Sports: "When my teams win matches playing a different style then the style matters, not results.
"Now [other] teams are playing defensive and getting results and are praised.
"When my team plays extremely well, results are more important. But I am happy my team is playing really well. We have a position in the table [sixth] that has no relation to our football."
Speaking at his news conference later, he said: "When my teams are playing pragmatic football and winning matches and winning titles you say that is not nice and not right.
"Then my team play very well -- and it is a huge change to the last two or three years [at United] -- and now you say what matters is to get the result no matter what."
Asked for his view of the Everton penalty and the crude first-half challenge for which United's Marcos Rojo could have been sent off, the Portuguese twice answered: "I didn't see it."
He said he had brought Fellaini on to counter the "direct" threat posed by the hosts and added: "Everton are not a passing team any more like they were in the past.
"Everton are a team that plays direct -- goalkeeper direct, Ashley Williams direct, [Ramiro] Funes Mori direct. Everything direct.
"When you have on the bench a player with two metres in height, you play the player in front of the defensive line to help the team to win the match."
The draw at Goodison was a sixth in 14 league games and leaves them on 21 points, nine adrift of fourth-placed Manchester City, and Mourinho said: "We are getting draws but deserving victory. We are leaving the stadium with a feeling we deserved more."
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