A season that supplied the glints of a title problem is now turning into the worst of Jose Mourinho’s managerial profession.
Of all of the managers to inflict Tottenham’s tenth lack of the Premier League season, it was Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who changed Mourinho at Manchester United.
Maybe that explains why Mourinho was so irritated with Solskjaer after a 3-1 dwelling loss noticed Tottenham fall six factors from fourth place which is occupied by West Ham once more after the east London membership beat Leicester 3-2 on Sunday.
The post-match focus at Tottenham was much less on Edinson Cavani’s diving header that put second-place United 2-1 in entrance and extra on the circumstances that denied the ahead the sport’s opening aim.
Cavani had slotted by Hugo Lloris’ legs after the ball was rolled into his path by Paul Pogba. But then the aim was dominated out after a prolonged VAR assessment penalized Scott McTominay for a push on Son Heung-min who went tumbling to the bottom.
“The game has gone … if that’s a clear and obvious error,” Solskjaer stated. “We shouldn’t be conned but I have to say, if my son stays down like this for three minutes … and he needs his 10 mates to help him up, he won’t get any food.”
Mourinho bristled at Solskjaer’s criticism of Son, who did go on to interrupt the impasse within the fortieth minute.
“Sonny is very lucky that his father is a better person than Ole because I think a father you always have to feed their kids, it doesn’t matter what they do,” Mourinho stated. “If you steal to feed your kids, you steal. I am very, very disappointed. Like we say in Portuguese, `Bread is bread, cheese is cheese.’ I told Ole what I think about his comments.”
After discovering what Solskjaer had stated in a TV interview and shortly difficult him on it, Mourinho was dissatisfied to not be requested for his response within the information convention.
“It’s really sad that you don’t ask me about it,” Mourinho stated. “It’s really sad you don’t have the moral honesty to treat me the way you treat others.”
Never earlier than in a profession that has seen Mourinho win home titles with Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid has the Portuguese misplaced as many as 10 league matches in a season.
While David Moyes _ one other former United supervisor _ could possibly be main West Ham into the Champions League for the primary time, Mourinho is about to overlook out at a second try at qualification with the 2019 crushed finalists.
United’s comeback started within the 57th when Fred teed up Cavani for a shot that was parried by Hugo Lloris and the Brazilian adopted up together with his first Premier League aim since 2018.
Having denied Bruno Fernandes, Lloris was crushed once more within the 79th when the Portugal midfielder’s nutmeg helped to arrange Mason Greenwood for a cross that Cavani bought on the tip of with a header.
And Greenwood put additional gloss on the win within the sixth minute of stoppage time by scoring after Pogba and Cavani mixed to arrange the English ahead for a shot that Lloris bought a contact to however couldn’t maintain out.
“I’m not going home upset with my players,” Mourinho stated. “They gave what they can.”
Mourinho had loved a 6-1 win at United in October and Tottenham had been high of the standings in December. But Tottenham has fallen to seventh place, whereas Solskjaer remains to be on track to ship the crew’s highest end since being runners-up three years in the past underneath Mourinho.
The Premier League trophy appears out of attain for United with Manchester City 11 factors forward. While United remains to be in rivalry for the Europa League, Mourinho has a League Cup closing assembly with Manchester City in two weeks.
LINGARD DOUBLE
Jesse Lingard took his aim tally to eight in 9 appearances since becoming a member of West Ham on mortgage from Manchester United. The win allowed West Ham to dislodge Chelsea and transfer again into fourth place.
Lingard volleyed within the opener and tapped in a second earlier than halftime after being arrange by Jarrod Bowen, who added the third three minutes into the second half. Kelechi Iheanacho scored twice for Leicester however the third-place crew couldn’t produce an equalizer.
LACAZETTE BRACE
Alexandre Lacazette scored twice both aspect of Gabriel Martinelli’s tap-in as Arsenal nudged last-place Sheffield United nearer to relegation with a 3-0 victory. A primary clear sheet in 14 matches in all competitions moved Mikel Arteta’s crew as much as ninth.
NEWCASTLE COMEBACK
Allan Saint-Maximin got here off the bench to arrange Jacob Murphy’s equalizer for Newcastle at Burnley after which scored himself to seal a 2-1 win. It moved Newcastle six factors away from the relegation zone.
