{"id":161891,"date":"2019-10-21T13:47:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T12:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161891"},"modified":"2019-10-21T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T12:48:13","slug":"epl-mourinho-reveals-liverpools-weakness-after-1-1-draw-with-man-utd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161891","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Mourinho reveals Liverpool&#8217;s weakness after 1-1 draw with Man Utd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bayern-Munich-urged-to-appoint-Mourinho-as-new-manager.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Chelsea manager, Jose Mourinho, has said Liverpool have \u201climitations against teams with low blocks\u201d, after their 1-1 draw with Manchester United on Sunday at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds dropped points for the first time in the Premier League this season, after Adam Lallana cancelled out Marcus Rashford\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n<p>United had the better of the match in the first half and looked set to hand the Reds their first defeat of the league season, before Lallana rose from the bench to secure a point.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool have not won at Old Trafford since 2014 and manager Jurgen Klopp explained after the match, how his team find it difficult because United simply want to defend against them.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho agreed with this assessment, describing United\u2019s defensive outlook as a \u201clow block\u201d and saying Liverpool\u2019s failure to break it down is a major weakness. \u2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir quality as a team to play against a low block, which is a problem that sometimes they have,\u201d Mourinho said on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have these fantastic records of all these victories, but they have some limitations against teams with low blocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJurgen clearly has a little bit of frustration, they are a fantastic team, but at Old Trafford, a special place for Liverpool to win, he never did it.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chelsea manager, Jose Mourinho, has said Liverpool have \u201climitations against teams with low blocks\u201d, after their 1-1 draw with Manchester United on Sunday at Old Trafford. The Reds dropped points for the first time in the Premier League this season, after Adam Lallana cancelled out Marcus Rashford\u2019s goal. United had the better of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,7414,1406],"class_list":["post-161891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-jurgen-klopp","tag-manchester-united"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}