Mourinho blames referee and bad luck for Man United loss

Cary Marshall
01:23, Sep 19, 2016
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United suffered its third defeat in eight days as Watford handed Jose Mourinho his worst run as a manager in a decade.

Mourinho was furious with referee Michael Oliver for not awarding what he felt to be a foul by on Anthony Martial in the build-up to Capoue's goal, with the United forward substituted through injury soon afterwards.

He said to BBC Sport: "The first factor depends on ourselves, it relates to our individual mistakes and collective mistakes as individual players and as a team. That's my job because lady luck you don't control and referee's mistakes we don't control".

Teenage sensation Marcus Rashford was at the right place at the right time following a neat one-two with Zlatan Ibrahimovic putting United back into the game in the 62nd minute.

Dwelling too long on the ball deep inside his own half, Martial was caught in possession by Miguel Britos and, with United's defence completely exposed, Janmaat had time and space to pick out the unmarked Capoue, who drilled a clinical finish past de Gea.

When de Gea dropped the ball straight to Odion Ighalo a goal seemed certain, but the Watford striker fired hurriedly wide of the unguarded net from the edge of the penalty area.

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The former US Open champion had hinted after partnering Mayer in doubles that he would not be playing on Sunday. The win secured his country a meeting with Croatia in November's final.

After opening the campaign with three successive wins, the record 20-time English champions have now lost three games in around a week. I can't do anything to improve it.

The visitors took control from that point and only a tremendous stop from Heurelho Gomes prevented Ibrahimovic heading home Marouane Fellaini's cross with 12 minutes remaining. "And we lost again in our best moment". That second goal is an individual mistake because we know we have to press the wing-backs outside the box and not let them take the advantage of being one against one inside the box.

Mazzarri said: "We played very well even against Arsenal and Chelsea here at home but we were more unlucky than today".

"Collectively and individually, we need to get better".

Having won their first game of the season against West Ham last week, Watford started on the front foot, with Deeney inches away from tapping in Sebastian Prodl's header at the far post.

"I knew that because the first Man City goal and this second goal you can find an incredible similarity - which is [Aleksandar] Kolarov has the ball in a hard situation in the corner and my players instead of "go up and press" they decide to give space".

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