Boss: Young's Attitude Must Rub Off

Jose Mourinho feels Ashley Young's positivity needs to act as an example as Manchester United aim to bounce back from three successive defeats.

The games keep coming thick and fast with a trip to Northampton Town in the League Cup followed by an early start next Saturday against champions Leicester City at Old Trafford. Just as the manager was not getting carried away after the fine start to the campaign, he was refusing to be too down after the 3-1 reverse at Watford.

"I have this capacity of balance," he told MUTV. "Balance is, for me, not running around the pitch when we were winning a couple of matches and nobody sees now me being too depressed. I'm sad. Obviously, I'm sad but, as I was telling the players, there is only one way.

"At 10:30 in the morning, we have a training session and we have to be there. They have to work, they have to show themselves with a certain kind of attitude towards negative moments. I show them, as an example, Ashley Young who was, in my opinion, phenomenal with his attitude, positivity and determination.

"We need positive people to give us a positive feeling because, next time these boys are going onto a football pitch, they are going to feel, obviously as normal human beings, the weight of the defeats."