Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho, has admitted it would be hard to make changes to his team, despite the quality of some players’ performances.
United have drawn their last two Premier League fixtures 1-1 against Liverpool and Stoke City .
Their top scorer for last season, Anthony Martial, was left out completely against the Potters.
“Sometimes we are playing so well and creating chances – it is not easy to make changes,” Mourinho told reporters.
“It is easy to make changes when you see players not playing well, when you see a team not playing well. I change trying to give a different direction to the game.”
The United manager added: “A top team has to be much more clinical. You have to get the first chance of the match and ‘bang,’ 1-0. When you are winning by a goal then, the next chance, ‘boom’ – kill the opponent. And we are not doing that enough.
“We did that in a couple of matches but even in the matches that we won, if I remember for example Middlesbrough and Crystal Palace, it is always hard to score goals.”
Speaking in his postmatch news conference after the Stoke game, he said: “I’ve been saying for a long, long time that one day we will score every chance of the match and somebody will go home with six or seven goals in the basket but the reality is that day never arrives and we always struggle so much to score goals.
“We hit the post, the goalkeeper saves, we miss the easy chance, and then in the end, we risk losing the match – by scoring an own goal – and we had to wait until minute 90-something to equalise.”
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