‘We Made It Look Easy,’ Mourinho Hails Rampant Manchester Utd
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho hailed the “amazing” Red Devils team as they eased past CSKA Moscow to continue an impressive start to the UEFA Champions League campaign.
United annihilated Russian based CSKA Moscow 4-1 in their second group game in the Russian capital.
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Romelu Lukaku scored twice to reach 10 goal mark in all competitions for the English gaints, Anthony Martial netted a penalty and Henrikh Mkhitaryan was also on target for United.
Mouriho who is making a return at the Champions league, after winning the Europa Cup last season said: “I think we made it look easy. We started so strongly, I think we surprised them with our attitude and we were really strong. We killed the game. They didn’t look as good as they are, but I think because of us.”
“It was unexpected, 3-0 at half-time was unexpected. But we started strongly, we were really strong, we pressed them, we recovered the ball and our counter-attack was always fast and dangerous.
“In the first 30 minutes we had four shots, three goals and the goalkeeper made a phenomenal save from Mkhitaryan’s first-post shot. So we started really strongly and by winning 3-0 we had the game in our hands. [Then] it was just control, so it was really good.”
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The 54-year-old Portuguese who blasted his team for displaying “PlayStation” football in their previous game against FC Basel a fortnight ago, had a lot of praise for his team this time around.
He said: “I didn’t see that [PlayStation football] as much, just a little bit of relaxation, a reaction by the home team with the normal pride to try to score, to try to have a different result and we just relaxed a little bit.
“We had a couple of good chances but I think it’s normal. We have a game on Saturday. Liverpool are luckier than us, they play Tuesday and Sunday, we have to play on Wednesday and on Saturday at 3pm. So I think it’s normal, a little bit of relaxation.”
United top the group with six points from two games while Basel and CSKA Moscow are in second and third positions on the log.
