Jakarta –
Manager Manchester United Ole Gunnar Solskjaer offend Jose Mourinho after a dramatic victory at Brighton & Hove Albion. Mourinho’s reply was no less striking.
MU won dramatically at Brighton headquarters, Saturday (9/26/2020) evening WIB. Brighton had leveled the score to 2-2 in the 90th minute, but then the ‘Red Devils’ got a penalty after the long whistle sounded thanks to the intervention of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR).
MU won 3-2, a result that Solskjaer acknowledged was lucky. Because Brighton is more dominant and has five chances to hit the post / crossbar.
After the match, Solskjaer joked about the chances that hit the post / crossbar. He mentioned Mourinho, referring to the incident when the manager Tottenham Hotspur it leads the team away to the headquarters of North Macedonia club Shkendija in the Europa League.
At that time Mourinho complained about the smaller goal 5 cm.
“We have to be grateful that Jose (Mourinho) is not here to measure the bars, because maybe they are too small!” joked Solskjaer as reported talkSPORT.
Knowing his colleague’s comments, Mourinho responded with no less striking. The Portuguese man said that for Solskjaer the most important thing was the size of the goal, but the size of the penalty box.
This refers to the number of penalties that Manchester United received last season, 14 at Premier League and 21 throughout the event. The 14 penalties in the Premier League is a record, while the 21 penalties in all competitions are the most a team has received in Europe’s top five leagues.
“No, because I know the net is fine. I think Ole was very happy yesterday and was so surprised by what happened to his team that he made a joke,” Mourinho said. Metro.
“But I understand that for him the goal size is not important. What matters is the dimensions of the 18 yards (16.2 meters – the width of the penalty box).”
“He will never accept playing with a box measuring 17 yards (15.5 meters), I think he would prefer a box measuring 22 yards (20 meters). For him, that would be better,” he added.
Mourinho also commented on the penalty that MU received after the long whistle sounded in the last match.
“In some clubs, even after the final whistle, it is possible for something important to happen. But for us, I know that after the final whistle, the game is over,” he joked.
Tottenham themselves will visit MU in the fourth week of the Premier League, Sunday (4/10/2020).
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