Man Utd news: Jose Mourinho will not be sacked regardless of the Liverpool result (Image: GETTY)
Manchester United manager Mourinho is under pressure to pick up the points ahead of this afternoon’s Premier League clash with Liverpool.
The Red Devils go into the match on the back of a chastening 2-1 Champions League defeat to Valencia where, not for the first time this season, they offered little attacking threat.
Manchester United fans are beginning to grow tired of their team’s increasingly abject displays ahead of today’s match with Liverpool.
And some are even clamouring for the board to make a change with Zinedine Zidane and Mauricio Pochettino both fancied to take over from Jose Mourinho.
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Man Utd news: Jose Mourinho will lead his team into battle against Liverpool (Image: GETTY)
“But I predicted in the summer that the season was going to be very difficult for us.
“I felt this from the summer, our second position last season was a fantastic achievement, and people thought that because we finished second, the next season you will be in a situation where you are going to try to do better, and to do better than second is to be champion.
“But I thought that the situation was not that.
“And I thought the second position was really a fantastic season by all of us, and that this season was going to be very, very difficult, because the teams that were behind us, potentially shouldn't be, and on top of that, they had a great improvement in their teams.”