Poor performance form the team, but Mourinho had an absolute shocker today and has had an absolute shocker of a week, and needs to seriously wind his neck in.
First, he shouldn't have brought Lindelof on when Jones was injured. We have all watched the same games as him and Lindelof's performance today was not a surprise. He isn't ready to play in the PL and that has been fairly apparent every time he's appeared. Blind isn't great at centreback but as an emergency stand in, mid game, was very obviously the better choice.
Then, at half time, he changes the formation to try and shore up the defence, despite us being 2-0 down and Huddelsfield already showing they had no interest in pressuring our back line or contesting the middle of the pitch while they were ahead. There was literally no point in making this change at this point. It was llike he thoought the score would magically go back to 0-0 if he did this.
Then after 25 minutes of us not being able to do anything because Jose had taken his own attack and midfield out of the game, he changed it back, as if we'd suddenly on 70 minutes gone 2-0 down.
Then when that worked and we got back in the game and were pressuring them, instead of letting us carry on, he sticks Smalling up top and has us aim 60 yard hoofs at him. Completely changing how we were playing for the third time in the half and again making it much easier for Huddelsfield to relieve pressure on themselves. By the end none of our players looked like they had a clue what they were meant too be doing anymore.
I also don't understand the changes at half time as these had nothing to do with the change in system and offered nothing new to the team. All it meant was we had no way of providing an extra attacking threat late in the game as Jose had subbed OFF our extra attacking threat, when we were 2-0 down! It would have been very useful to be able to have Rashford and Martial on the pitch together towards the end, but Jose, for reasons known only to himself, deliberately made this impossible.
Last weekend he didn't want to win at Anfield, which completely blunted our momentum. Turned our positive start to the season into a wave of negative criticism. Alll in order to achieve a 0-0 draw which will be of little help come May.
This week he managed the game as if he thought he was playing himself at a game of chess. Over complicating changes that never needed to be made. Taking off players just to make a point to no one and crippling our ability to get back in the game by doing so.
In the week his playing himself off to PSG.
Not impressed at all. IF we wanted a manager who was more interested in massaging his own ego than doing what is best for the team, we could have just not sacked LVG.