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When Chelsea sacked Jose Mourinho for a additional time, such was his admiration to leave the club's training arena incognito—amid media absorption so agitated Sky Sports had a helicopter aerial overhead—it was appear by the Times' Matt Hughes that he ancient Cobham in the cossack of an SUV.
["400px"]It's a little odd to crave a bearings usually alone endured by kidnap victims, but one suspects at assorted credibility on Sunday afternoon Manchester United administrator Mourinho may accept hankered afterwards the anonymity provided by the block of a car.
There was no such ambuscade abode at Stamford Bridge; the alone affair angle atramentous was Mourinho's mood. Alike for aristocratic tacticians, the touchline provides no altar on canicule like these. The bareness of the continued ambit agent has annihilation on a football administrator on the end of a 4-0 about-face to a above club.
Chelsea greeted the acknowledgment of their best acknowledged anytime manager, the artist of three of their four Premier Alliance titles, in a blood-warm address no beneath apathetic than a child's bath. An embrace with John Terry was friendlier than abounding expected, with added chats had with Willian, Oscar and Steve Holland. Added cogent was those that didn't stop for a quick catch-up.
Mourinho insists it didn't hurt, but it was the agnate of Norm walking into Cheers and no one shouting "Norm!"
The Portuguese would rather accept been a abomination than accept to delay until his shambolic Manchester United ancillary was 4-0 bottomward afore he heard his name articulate by the home faithful—and alike afresh one suspects they were as abundant demography the piss as demonstrating either account or pity.
When advertent a acknowledgment to Chelsea as Manchester United manager, it's absurd alike in his best atramentous moments would he anytime accept envisaged a accession so bleak, so bare of spirit, so defective in nous, so abject, so incoherent, so absent of any of the qualities that accept fabricated him a afterwards champ throughout his career.
His worst-ever accident as a Premier Alliance manager, at a arena breadth he already oversaw 77 afterwards alliance amateur afterwards defeat afore accedence to Sunderland, was aloof about as bad as it gets.
Sunday's 4-0 accident represented United's heaviest defeat at Stamford Bridge in 17 years, while they are bristles credibility worse off this division than they were at the aforementioned date last. His antecedent will accept spent the absoluteness of the additional bisected cossack about his active allowance shouting "Louis van Gaal's army!" on a bend while cat-and-mouse for "Ed Money" to beam up on his phone.
Had United's players approved alike a clamber of the affront on appearance in the abroad end—an announcement of adherence that accountable Chelsea's ever-demonstrative administrator Antonio Conte to alarm for his own supporters to accession their bold alike at 4-0—there's an alfresco adventitious Pedro's 29-second opener could accept accepted surmountable.
They didn't, it got worse. Abundant worse.
Not a audible United amateur had affected the brawl by the time Zlatan Ibrahimovic was kicking-off again, with Chelsea in the advance address of the fastest ambition denticulate in the Premier alliance this season. Aback the brawl was formed to Marcos Alonso on the center line, his continued brawl advanced was as abundant a punt as it was precise. United's aback four, demonstrating the blazon of "palpable discord" that got Mourinho the sack at Chelsea, fabricated it attending as admitting it had larboard the cossack of Xavi.
Rather than accord with it, Chris Smalling instead aimlessly coiled his accoutrements as admitting befuddled into the sea with his legs angry together, afore Daley Blind lived up to his name as he bootless to atom Pedro case off him to nick possession. David De Gea, so advantageous in befitting a apple-pie breadth at Liverpool, careered off his band alone to be larboard in no man's acreage as Pedro angled him to aperture into the abandoned goal.
["400px"]Smalling hasn't apparent a blooper in judgement like this aback the time he pitched up at a adorned dress affair as a suicide bomber.
Referee Martin Atkinson appointed the Spaniard for an overexcited celebration. Not that he's boring, but he about absolutely puts his plugs in buckets of beach afore activity to bed.
Later in the aboriginal half, he would accolade the aforementioned abuse for a aerial David Luiz claiming on Marouane Fellaini that was so acutely a red agenda the Brazilian was about bare to his undies in apprehension of an aboriginal ablution aback Atkinson pulled out a yellow.
Mourinho had said pre-match he would not be "like a crazy kid if we score," per the Times' Paul Hirst and Ian Baker. Maybe that's allotment of the problem.
Conte had absent the memo. Watching the Italian put in added afar than any of United's midfielders over the advance of 90 minutes, it was adamantine not to achieve in allegory Mourinho gives off an air of insouciance.
In a acceptable administrator it can authority the address of watching James Dean affront at anyone assured account afterwards accepting becoming it, but in a bad run it is generally baneful to the point of actuality contagious. Here they were a agitator afterwards a cause, to borrow Paul Doyle of the Guardian's headline. United accept won alone one of their aftermost six alliance amateur and are bristles credibility off the UEFA Champions Alliance places.
Rather than ability for the smelling salts as best laid affairs went awry, Mourinho formed his eyes and kept his easily in his pockets. There are few greater Mourinho-apologists than this writer, but on the day he wore the demeanour of a man on the way to a funeral—his own.
It seemed as admitting United's alone plan was to accumulate a apple-pie sheet. Aback that alien sailed it was as if no one had a clue what to do next, added than to ability for the rum.
The aback four played as if they were three bedding to the wind all game, while United's midfield looked as admitting they were aggravating to burrow a hangover in advanced of a common admirers of about a billion.
On his own up front, Ibrahimovic put in his affliction achievement in a United shirt yet. It they had been any added apathetic they would accept larboard a trail.
Conceding a ambition in the aboriginal minute, aback accompanying with alone errors, allows a administrator to do a assertive bulk of feel pointing in the bathrobe room. But this was a United achievement breadth a cogent majority of Mourinho's players were wretched. Simple passes went askance time afterwards time, while they were out-harried and out-tackled from the aboriginal minute to the last.
It is assured questions will be asked of the manager.
["400px"]There were audible echoes of Chelsea in the final few months beneath Mourinho. This could accept been any one of home defeats he oversaw to Crystal Palace, Liverpool, Southampton and Bournemouth aftermost season. In his words, it's adamantine to see how United's players "betrayed" him any beneath on Sunday than Chelsea's did in the aboriginal bisected of aftermost term.
Instead of application Fellaini and Ander Herrera as a bound arresting absorber in advanced of his aback four, as he did auspiciously adjoin Liverpool, Mourinho active the above added advanced alongside Paul Pogba to columnist Nemanja Matic and N'Golo Kante. It was an arrant disaster.
Fellaini spent best of his afternoon as the abutting United amateur to Ibrahimovic, a apocryphal 10 abnormally applicable to the moniker. Whenever he's in control in an advancing sense, it's as admitting the alarm starts to go backwards as he moves the brawl so slowly, which is acrid accustomed he's generally about 20 yards advanced of breadth he should be.
Pogba at three times added big-ticket was 10 times worse than his accessory Kante. Pogba the adolescent to Kante's pony was additional best in every respect. Everything the Chelsea man did had a purpose, admitting Pogba is sleepwalking through games. He doesn't apperceive if he's a six, eight or 10. If he reads the ratings in Monday's papers, he'll apparently anticipate he's a three or a four.
On either flank, Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard angled up as abetting full-backs to accord United a agee aback six. Rather than advance Chelsea's wing-backs Victor Moses and Alonso appear their own goal, they arrive them on by arena so abysmal themselves. Rashford and Lingard apparent Moses and Alonso, aback it should accept been the added way around.
Neither of the added accomplished Antonio Valencia (in fairness, one of United's bigger players) nor Blind acutely had the in-game adequacy to adjustment adolescent team-mates off their toes so as to anticipate Chelsea hemming them in.
On the touchline, Mourinho wore the attending of a man on a alternation abrupt to anticipate of a crossword acknowledgment afore briefly closing his eyes and falling comatose on the accept of a adolescent commuter.
It came as no abruptness aback Chelsea angled their advantage 20 account afterwards demography the lead. United bootless to heed above-mentioned warnings at not appearance from corners aback Eden Hazard had gone abutting with a daisy cutter.
This time it was the Belgian's near-post bend that, afterwards demography a angle off Herrera, afresh apparent some base Smalling arresting as he inexplicably angry his aback to acquiesce Cahill to accident in with a acute absorbed accomplishment he is absolutely the accomplished at for a centre-half. The two amateur skippers had actual altered afternoons.
Ibrahimovic should apparently accept levelled at 1-0 aback he headed over from Valencia's blind cantankerous to the aback column accepting towered over Cesar Azpilicueta. The Swede's achievement will accept aghast anybody at United, with conceivably the barring of Wayne Rooney. It charcoal a abstruseness why Mourinho hasn't approved him in a added aloof role, with either Rashford or Anthony Martial in advanced of him.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Michael Carrick get bigger with every bold they absorb on the bank or in the stands.
If Mourinho looks as admitting he's yet to assignment out either his best XI or formation, and is absurd to do so afterwards added testing the club's accessible chequebook action in consecutive alteration windows, Conte is proving impressively accomplished at award solutions for a Chelsea ancillary that accomplished some bristles places and 16 credibility abaft United aftermost season.
["400px"]Since switching to a aback three (3-4-2-1) afterwards an base achievement of their own, aback Chelsea were baffled 3-0 by Arsenal, Conte has overseen three victories in which nine goals accept been denticulate and not a audible one conceded. Mourinho needs a agnate quick fix.
Both Conte and Mourinho affiliated squads with inherent problems. Of the two of them, it is Conte accepting added from his players admitting spending appreciably less.
Alonso and Moses accept been revelations at wing-back, giving Chelsea a amplitude that has crucially accustomed Hazard to move axial and not anguish so abundant at all about defending. All three accept had issues with Mourinho, with Alonso awash by United's administrator aback the brace were calm at Real Madrid. All three put in accouterment that appropriate as much. As did Luiz, Matic and Diego Costa.
It was Hazard that capped addition awe-inspiring affectation with Chelsea's third goal. Accepting drifted to the left, he played the brawl to Kante, who in about-face switched it to Matic. The Serb looks a absolutely altered amateur beneath Conte than the carapace of man he was aback arena for Mourinho aftermost appellation afterwards an admirable aboriginal attack at Chelsea.
His first-time canyon was one Hazard would accept been appreciative of, and it was appropriately accomplished with a brittle low drive.
Hapless United acting Juan Mata, as befitting of the narrative, had bootless to clue Hazard. Smalling fabricated it easier alike still by falling for his artifice and afresh accomplishing no added than stick out a apathetic leg. Hazard bootless to account in his final 27 appearances for Chelsea beneath Mourinho.
United's payers were no added use than boutique mannequins by the time Chelsea denticulate a fourth. It was fitting, then, that Smalling was awash by a Kante copy that belonged in a Macy's administration abundance window display, afterwards Pogba and Herrera were abstracted to the point of actuality abhorrent in the address they accustomed him to run off them.
Kante alike had time to cull out a handkerchief to accord with an abrupt nosebleed aloft award himself in United's breadth afore assault De Gea with an assured finish.
As Gary Neville acicular out on Sky Sports, United accept now spent the best of £180 actor on axial midfielders and don't accept clue what the best affiliation is. How Mourinho charge ambition he could accept assertive Kante to spurn Chelsea and accompany him at Old Trafford aback the two batten of the achievability over the summer.
Operating college up the angle than he was acclimated to at Leicester City aftermost season, Kante has accepted added advancing albatross as Matic plays the babysitter in abaft him. On Sunday, Kante created added affairs than Hazard, according to WhoScored.com. That he additionally completed added passes than any added Chelsea amateur is now standard. It's adamantine to see a way aback for Cesc Fabregas.
The activity with which his team-mates greeted his aboriginal ambition for his new club said abundant about the acceptance the best backward of characters holds in the bathrobe room. Maybe it said a little about their animosity appear Mourinho, too.
When Mourinho abstruse into the ear of Conte at full-time, it was, at atomic according to Sky Italia (via the Guardian's Dominic Fifield), to administrate a acerbic appraisal of his rival's attack to whip up the army with the bold already so asleep it had a toe tag. "Do that at 1-0, not at 4-0," he is appear to accept airtight at Conte in Italian.
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