That must be our best record ever against British teams as we use to always struggle against them, even when we were ontop in the 90s.
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[CL] Manchester United 0-1 JUVENTUS [October 23rd, 2018] (1 Viewer)
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Mourinho's Juventus praise stings Manchester United
United were outclassed by the Serie A giants and Mourinho made no effort to sugar-coat that reality, but his comments were a thinly-veiled critique of the club's direction.
"Juventus is champions for seven years, I think seven years in a row, two Champions League finals in the last four or five years and not happy with what they have, they want more, they want more," Mourinho said.
"They want more. They had (Gonzalo) Higuain and (Paulo) Dybala, they want more. They go for Ronaldo. They go for the best players in the world. Big club with a big past with a big desire to have a big future," he said.
Mourinho conceded his team was "a bit" behind the level of Juventus and the elite.
"To go to the Juventus level? Barcelona level? Real Madrid level? How can you reach that level? Manchester City level? How can you reach this level?" he said.
Mourinho spent much of the pre-season criticising what he views as the club's lack of investment in the transfer market despite spending close to £400 million (A$730 million) since arriving at Old Trafford in 2016.
Asked if United needed investment to reach the level of those clubs, Mourinho replied bluntly: "Yes".
The Portuguese's biggest frustration was the failure to bring in a major reinforcement in the centre of defence and it was perhaps no coincidence that he highlighted Juve's two centre-halves, Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci for particular praise.
"Mr Bonucci and Mr Chiellini could go to Harvard University and give classes on how to be a central defender," Mourinho said.
Mourinho admitted when the draw was made he thought United would be battling with Valencia for runners-up spot behind Juve.
"We knew it would be a fight with Valencia for second position," said the Portuguese, whose side are now five points behind Juventus but two ahead of Valencia in Group H.
Despite the defeat, Mourinho was satisfied with his side's performance.
"We played against one of the biggest candidates to win the Champions League and we did the possible to get a different result, especially because the way we played in the second half," he said.
"Juventus managed to hide the ball from us and frustrated our intention to be positive. The second half we were more aggressive and that's a big effort by the boys. We didn't really have attacking options on the bench to try."
Former players Rio Ferdinand and Paul Scholes delivered a withering assessment of the hosts' performance, saying the Red Devils were a class below their opposition.
https://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/mourinho-s-juventus-praise-stings-manchester-united
Mourinho's Juventus praise stings Manchester United
United were outclassed by the Serie A giants and Mourinho made no effort to sugar-coat that reality, but his comments were a thinly-veiled critique of the club's direction.
"Juventus is champions for seven years, I think seven years in a row, two Champions League finals in the last four or five years and not happy with what they have, they want more, they want more," Mourinho said.
"They want more. They had (Gonzalo) Higuain and (Paulo) Dybala, they want more. They go for Ronaldo. They go for the best players in the world. Big club with a big past with a big desire to have a big future," he said.
Mourinho conceded his team was "a bit" behind the level of Juventus and the elite.
"To go to the Juventus level? Barcelona level? Real Madrid level? How can you reach that level? Manchester City level? How can you reach this level?" he said.
Mourinho spent much of the pre-season criticising what he views as the club's lack of investment in the transfer market despite spending close to £400 million (A$730 million) since arriving at Old Trafford in 2016.
Asked if United needed investment to reach the level of those clubs, Mourinho replied bluntly: "Yes".
The Portuguese's biggest frustration was the failure to bring in a major reinforcement in the centre of defence and it was perhaps no coincidence that he highlighted Juve's two centre-halves, Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci for particular praise.
"Mr Bonucci and Mr Chiellini could go to Harvard University and give classes on how to be a central defender," Mourinho said.
Mourinho admitted when the draw was made he thought United would be battling with Valencia for runners-up spot behind Juve.
"We knew it would be a fight with Valencia for second position," said the Portuguese, whose side are now five points behind Juventus but two ahead of Valencia in Group H.
Despite the defeat, Mourinho was satisfied with his side's performance.
"We played against one of the biggest candidates to win the Champions League and we did the possible to get a different result, especially because the way we played in the second half," he said.
"Juventus managed to hide the ball from us and frustrated our intention to be positive. The second half we were more aggressive and that's a big effort by the boys. We didn't really have attacking options on the bench to try."
Former players Rio Ferdinand and Paul Scholes delivered a withering assessment of the hosts' performance, saying the Red Devils were a class below their opposition.
https://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/mourinho-s-juventus-praise-stings-manchester-united
He is insincere he is taking a dig at his players and management by praising ours. Singling out our CBs cause they refused to buy him new ones. He is deflecting blame.
Wanting more? We lost a key player every transfer season until the Ronaldo buy, operated on a teeny tiny budget for years to get where we are. In that same time period they spent hundreds and hundreds of millions and hired 3 coaches and failed to build a team despite all that aggressive spending. They nicked Pogba off of us. They nicked Alexis out of Arsenal, martial at Monaco was a super promising player, Mata was Chelsea's best player, Di Maria from Madrid and Falcao from Monaco, Mikhi was Dortmund's best player and they all flopped.
Utd has been spending big and buying top players from other clubs for years... they just go down a few levels as soon as they join the club. They need their Conte. A coach that would get 1000% out of the players they have. A coach who transformed Pirlo, Barzagli, Bonnuci etc into top top players. They shouldnt hire Conte cause he too will bore them to death, they just need a coach to do to them what Conte did to us.
If someone wants to read words like 'outclassed' and 'outplayed' 100 times per page, enjoy the read. 
http://www.redcafe.net/matches/manchester-united-vs-juventus.243/discussion
http://www.redcafe.net/matches/manchester-united-vs-juventus.243/discussion
If someone wants to read words like 'outclassed' and 'outplayed' 100 times per page, enjoy the read.
http://www.redcafe.net/matches/manchester-united-vs-juventus.243/discussion
http://www.redcafe.net/matches/manchester-united-vs-juventus.243/discussion