3 things that went wrong for Manchester United against West Ham United
After an uninspiring performance and disappointing result against Brighton last week, Mourinho demanded a response from his players as Manchester United traveled to West Ham United.
A victory was crucial to building some momentum going into next week's FA Cup final against Chelsea. He decided to ring the changes and Alexis Sanchez, Jesse Lingard, Scott McTominay, Ander Herrera and Luke Shaw all started the game.
Despite the first-half being a duel of good tempo, both teams had to settle for half chances, with Adrian being the busier goalkeeper, making five saves.
Luke Shaw came closest for the visitors when he struck the post and both teams were waiting for a spark from somewhere.
However, the tempo died down completely in the second-half and United seemed to be happy to take a point away from the match.
United thus secured the second spot in the league this season and de Gea won his first ever Golden Glove after his 18th clean sheet.
We look at three things that went wrong for United on the night.
#3 Lack of intensity in the second-half
Despite the game ending 0-0, the first half-an-hour looked nothing like it. Both teams looked to take the game to their opponent and carved out decent openings.
But, if one expected more or less the same in the second half, they would have been disappointed, to say the least. The intensity, tempo and desire reached a new low and Jose Mourinho failed to ring the changes at the right time.
United hardly troubled Adrian in the second 45 minutes and for the most part of the match, they looked content with coming away with a point.