Mourinho's Verdict On Win Over Leicester

Jose Mourinho felt Manchester United dominated Sunday's 3-0 Premier League win over Leicester City and was pleased to see his team converting chances into goals. Here's what he said in his post-match press conference and interviews with MUTV and Sky Sports...

Same performance, ideal result
"I think we played like we normally play. We played well, we tried to win. Obviously the opponent is difficult but that's something we are used to. We didn't have the best start - in the first 15 or 20 minutes. But then we started to have control, we moved the ball around, we created chances, we scored goals. That's the only difference - that we arrived at half-time with a 2-0 result. Then we controlled the game and it was quite easy."

Taking our chances
"We missed the first big chance, for Rashford, after some amazing football. If he hits the shot well, it's an amazing goal. But then the second chance, third chance, fourth chance - goals. And then the game is in our hands. We are very good by keeping the ball, controlling the game and killing the opponent's emotion, but we need to score goals and we did that."

Tactical switch
"We went to a 4-4-2, the same system as they play. We tried not to give [Leicester's centre-backs] Morgan and Huth a two-against-one fight and target with Zlatan. We tried to give more freedom to Zlatan by playing with Marcus there. Two lines of four gave us great stability defensively but we lacked creativity playing this way. We were fine, we were quite stable in the game but without the quality of the possession we normally have and the control of the game. Then we changed and we started finding more spaces, then the first goal came and everything became easy for us - the goal changed the story of the game."

A global performance
"There were many good performances. The global performance was very good and there were many good individual performances; obviously Micki with the goal and assist and some amazing actions come into the eye, but I could name many players with very good individual performances."

Playing well and winning matches
"Look, my team is playing very well. For many years in my career, especially in this country, when my teams were ruthless, phenomenal defensively and very good on the counter-attack, I listened week after week that it was not enough, despite winning the title three times. It looks like this season to be phenomenal defensively and good on the counter-attack is an art - it is a big change in England. My Manchester United, I don’t want to change the profile of our play - this is the way we, the fans and the club want to play. But I don’t want to be the manager of a team that plays very well, creates a lot of chances and does not win matches. We need to score goals and we today we did."

Zlatan reaches 20 goals
"Normally when strikers score goals we say '22 goals - 14 goals and eight penalties', or '21 goals - 14 goals and seven penalties'. With Zlatan we need to remind ourselves it's 20 goals - 19 and one penalty."

Pressure on rivals?
"I don't know if we put pressure on. I know that we are there. We are going to have a much more difficult season than them and we are in a difficult situation but we are there. The team plays well; the team has given us a reason to trust them until the end."