Man Utd boss Mourinho snaps: We're better than Liverpool, Spurs and Chelsea

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho says his team deserves greater recognition for their Premier League campaign.

United are set for their highest finish since Sir Alex Ferguson walked off into the sunset with a 20th title in 2013.

Mourinho was asked if he was concerned Manchester City can win the Premier League title with victory in next week's derby.

"When is that?" he said, ­feigning disinterest in the ­eagerly-awaited derby clash.

"Next week? I'm not thinking yet about it.

"Manchester City is not important for me. What is important for me is that since the moment we left first position and went to ­second, we stayed there for the whole of the season.

"We deserved to be second, in spite of what you can say, the criticisms you make. You all say the third, fourth, fifth, sixth (placed teams) are better than us, but they're not, because we have more points than them.

"We're going to fight every match. Seven to go — we're going to fight to try to finish second.

"We played very well, moved the ball well, we pressed them high, they were always far from our goal. We played very well.

"I think we have 10 more points than last season, ­something like that [Eight more than after 31 games in 2016-17]. We have more goals scored, less goals conceded, we finished sixth last season, so we're going to try to finish second, so the season is not as bad as you try to make it out to be."