Mourinho: The Goals Will Come

Jose Mourinho is confident Manchester United's "amazing" quality of football will reap the goals it deserves sooner rather than later.

The Reds were left hugely frustrated in the Premier League last weekend after 37 efforts at goal - a record since Opta stats began - ended in a 0-0 draw with Burnley at Old Trafford.

It was the third league game in a row in which Mourinho's men had failed to score, following an equally infuriating 1-1 draw with Stoke City before that run, having dominated the chances created column once again in that match. The United manager is not concerned, however, insisting that is how football goes sometimes and he remains positive that we'll see a free-scoring Reds team in the near future.

"Sometimes you are in a period when one chance is enough to win the match," he reasoned, in an interview with MUTV. "Sometimes people in the stadium are very disappointed and they are not even emotionally in the game but you score a goal and you win.

"Other times people are excited and players are excited and players play incredible football and the emotion is there until the last second and the players don't stop. The number of chances was amazing [against Burnley], the quality of football the same. Stoke was more of the same, not with so many shots on target, but it was also a game where probably the quality of our attacking football was even higher.

"So one day we really have to score a lot of goals but the good thing is we have found a way to play and a way to enjoy things, but obviously total enjoyment is with three points."

United's attentions are fully focused on Europa League commitments for now with Fenerbahce next up in Group A. The Reds ran out 4-1 winners two weeks ago at Old Trafford, but Mourinho believes the Turks will be a completely different proposition on their own patch.

"I expect totally that," he declared. "I played many times in Turkey, I think with all my clubs in European competition here. It's hard, it's difficult, they have a completely different spirit and approach to the game, and lots of experienced players.

"Also here they are protected with their fixtures - they play only next Monday in their next league match so they can focus only on this game [against us]. I think they have the same objective as us, to try to get nine points at home. They got three against Feyenoord but we are also coming for a result and the players must enjoy such a difficult atmosphere. I always think the most difficult atmospheres are to enjoy and not to be scared of, so hopefully the players can do that.

"I don't think Fenerbahce had a bad game [at Old Trafford], to be honest," he added, during his pre-match press conference. "For more than half an hour, Fenerbahce was solid and the game was not easy for us. In the last period of the first half, we played well but we had a little moment where we scored two goals in a few minutes and then the game is different.

"The fact that Fenerbahce has back-to-back victories [in the league] is not a surprise, I think it's the normal situation. The Turkish league is improving all the time. Some teams outside Istanbul are coming to the top and fighting for the top positions. I think the three big Istanbul tradition clubs are very strong, they have very good players, very experienced managers like Dick Advocaat, players with experience of the highest level and international competitions. That's normal that now Fenerbahce is recovering positions in the Turkish league, and are coming close to the top."