Jose Mourinho: Manchester United should have been 5-0 up
Updated 22/11/2017 at 22:53 GMT
Jose Mourinho has lamented his side’s loss against FC Basel on Wednesday, saying that they should have been 5-0 up at half-time.
United were defeated 1-0 by the Swiss champions as a late goal from Michael Lang kept alive their hopes of qualifying for the knock-out stages.
Mourinho named a strong team, with Jesse Lingard, Paul Pogba and Anthony Martial all starting behind Romelu Lukaku.
However after the game he was left ruing miss opportunities.
"We lost because in the first half we should be 5-0 up but we could not score one goal after being so dominant,” Mourinho told BT Sport.
“It looks for many periods in the first half it was impossible not to win. I think the majority of the second half the feeling of everyone was OK, it will be 0-0, but they got the late goal.
"It is not fair for Blind to blame himself. He had a very positive game. We have to blame everyone on the pitch because we had so many chances.
"We don't need to win the (final group) match, we don't even need to draw, but obviously we will try to win."
Earlier Daley Blind had said that he was at fault for the goal saying "The second half was up and down. It was a good cross and he came round the back and I was a little too late. We have enough confidence in the group, we will be well."
Matteo Darmian added: "We played well in the first half but did not score. We go back to Manchester with a defeat so we have to recover well."
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