MOURINHO : FIGHT LIKE MEN

The humiliated one Jose Mourinho has charged his players to come out and play like men, highlighting that there is no place to hide.

Manchester United was trashed by Chelsea on Sunday, in a very humiliating encounter which that saw Chelsea display amazing football attributes.

"I would prefer to play (next) in the Premier League. It's a bad feeling in the Premier League. With the combination of results the gap to the top is six points," Mourinho said in an interview with MUTV after the Chelsea match and looking ahead to the cup tie.

"We have had a very difficult period of matches. We lost points this week and, even in the match when we played phenomenal against Stoke, we lost points then. Now we need to win matches.

"I am not saying they are easy ones, but we have Burnley, we have Swansea, West Ham, Sunderland, Middlesbrough - matches that we need to win and the top four, the top five, they have to play between themselves like we did this week against Chelsea and Liverpool.

"They are going to lose points too, so we are in the run, but there is no way to hide because I think our faces speak by themselves."

Mourinho added: "We are really, really sad, but again this is not for kids, this is for men and...we have to be men and work for the next one."

Former Chelsea midfielder Juan Mata, who was introduced at half-time against his old club, says the scoreline "hurts", but knows United can ill-afford to wallow in self-pity.

"We must carry on. Luckily, in three days we have a very important fixture, and as from now we must focus on this new opportunity to get better," Mata wrote on his blog.

"It sounds like a cliche but it's true: when we win and everybody praises you it's easy to be united and celebrate together, but it is now, after such a defeat, when we must remain mentally strong and keep going.

"Together we win and together we lose."

It has been a very poor  start for  Mourinho which has seen United get only 14 points from 9 matches.

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