Friday, 22 September 2017

Bigger, relentless, pitiless: are Mourinho’s Manchester United now the real deal? | Jonathan Wilson

United are making a habit of winning 4-0 – the perfect Mourinho scoreline – and his second-season changes have given his side an authoritative air

Nobody is such a master of the humdrum four-goal win as José Mourinho. When his sides start winning 4-0 and 4-1 and others start rolling their eyes, it’s a sure sign that things are going well. In claiming the league title in 2004-05, his Chelsea scored four goals in a game seven times. The victory against Everton on Sunday was the third time already this season that Manchester United have won a league game 4-0.

It’s the perfect Mourinho score, a brusque assertion of superiority rather than an artefact or a drama to be stored in the game’s collective memory forever.

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