Old Trafford: Joao Moutinho scored the equaliser for an impressive Wolves outfit.
Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho said he was more disappointed after Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Wolves at Old Trafford than he had been following last month’s 3-0 loss to Tottenham.
Mourinho was critical of his players’ attitude in a game which saw a fine strike from Wolves’ Joao Moutinho in the 53rd minute cancel out Fred’s 18th-minute opener.
It ended a run of three successive wins since that defeat at home to Spurs, and it could have been worse but for the performance of David de Gea.
Mourinho said: “If we had played against Wolves like we played against Tottenham, then I think we win.
“It looks a contradiction, but I’m more disappointed than I was against Tottenham. Because against Tottenham, obviously we lost the game, but I liked very, very much my team’s performance.
“(Against Wolves), of course, we had a better result – one point is better than zero. But I did not like my team.”
The Tottenham match on August 27, a second successive defeat at the time, was United’s previous home game.
Between then and Saturday’s contest – which was watched from the stands by former United boss Sir Alex Ferguson on his first return to the ground since having emergency brain surgery – the Red Devils had played three away matches and won on each occasion.
Premier League victories at Burnley and Watford were followed up on Wednesday with a 3-0 Champions League win – on a plastic pitch – against Switzerland’s Young Boys.
Mourinho added: “We won three matches away. We come home with a good spirit, we come home let’s say in peace because we recover.
“Then you start in a poor way. I could say (we were) tired, Champions League, awful pitch, the body suffers a different impact than (in) a match on natural grass, not coming home after the match.
