Jose Mourinho Identifies Major Obstacle To Man. United Champions League Hopes
Jose
Mourinho believes Manchester United’s profligacy in front of goal could
cost it a place in next season’s UEFA Champions League.
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho.
United
squandered an opportunity to climb into the top four of the English
Premier League on Saturday, drawing 1-1 against Bournemouth at Old Trafford.
Mourinho’s
side has now drawn seven of its past eleven league games, those 14
dropped points dealing a severe collective blow to its hopes of
qualifying for the Champions League.
"If
you look at the points we lost at home, I don’t speak about the Man
City match [on September 10] because everybody knows what happens,
everybody knows the penalty and the red card to Bravo,” Mourinho told
reporters on Monday including the Manchester Evening News
"But
in all the other matches we drew, if you accumulate all those points,
you are talking 10 or 12 points and then you are not just talking about
the top four but speaking about the top two or top one. So we lost too
many points at home and it’s just us our position.
"Are
we bad in relation to the top four? No we are not bad. There are
matches to play, points to win, points to lose, points to fight for, we
are not bad, but the reality is that we are losing too many points at
home."
United
could also qualify for the Champions League by winning the UEFA Europa
League. It faces FC Rostov of Russia in the round of 16 on Thursday.
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