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Marcus Rashford’s injury-time winner helps atrocious Manchester United to comeback win against Bournemouth

Marcus Rashford’s late winner, deep in injury time, helped Manchester United to a 2-1 comeback win against Eddie Howe’s Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium

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Marcus Rashford’s late winner, deep in injury time, helped Manchester United to a 2-1 comeback win against Eddie Howe’s Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium

In a match where the hosts were comfortably the better side for vast durations of the match saw Mourinho’s men claw back after a dismal start. The entire first-half was perfectly encapsulated in one moment on the first half when Alexis Sanchez, playing as a striker in place of the injured Romelu Lukaku, managed to cross the boundaries of the playing area and ended up on a Bournemouth supporter’s lap after failing to cross the ball.

It was the smash-and-grab win that United were famous for under former manager Sir Alex Ferguson but their play was pedestrian for much of the game.

Manchester United’s defenders were horrendous, and Chris Smalling had an absolute howler and even World Cup winner Paul Pogba had one of his nightmare games where he seemed to just watch the game go by.

Wilson fired Bournemouth into the lead in the 12th minute. Bournemouth’s corner wasn’t cleared properly, the ball fell to Junior Stanislas who, completely unmarked, sent a cross which was stabbed home by Callum Wilson.

United were lucky that it was only 1-0 at that point of time. In-form man Anthony Martial however pulled one back when Alexis Sanchez found him in the box and he didn’t falter, showing the kind of decisiveness that will make Mourinho beg him to sign on the dotted line and sign a contract extension as soon as feasible.

United were visibly better in the second half though the Mourinho continued to wear a grimace for the better part of the game before Manchester United substitute Marcus Rashford scored the winner in injury time.

Paul Pogba trotted down to the left flank and looped in a cross that was chested down by Rashford before smashing it past Begovic to give Mourinho a much-needed win.

Ander Herrera, who came on in the 2nd half seemed to subtly criticise his own manager’s playing style when he said: “Yes I think they were much better in the first half, but we were much better in the second. We gifted the first 25 minutes away again and that makes our job much more difficult. I want to be a whole game team, not just a second half team. We need to speak about it in the dressing room. We need to improve on the first 20 or 25 minutes. We want to be a team that plays well for the whole game.”

Given that Mourinho prefers a safety-first approach, this blunt response might cause some friction between the players and the manager. 

Mourinho also agreed that his team was woeful in the first half and said: “ “It was not just the start,” he says, when asked about his team’s bad start. “It was all the first half. At half-time I thought I was the luckiest manager in the Premier League. To be 1-1, when perhaps we should have been five or six two down. We were defensively awful. Awful. I thought people watching this game wouldn’t believe how hard we’d trained this week. Then in the second half it was the exact opposite. It was impossible to play worse than we did before. The team performed much better.”

When asked about the team’s slow start, Mourinho said: “I can’t understand it My staff said the warm-up was the best we’ve had. I love the song ‘Attack! Attack! Attack!’ [sung by fans] but you also need defensive stability and we didn’t have that today. I really can’t understand the kind of mentality that brings me more white hair.”

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