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Juan Mata Says Manchester United Can’t Blame ‘Bad Luck’ After 1-1 West Ham Draw
- Updated: November 28, 2016
Manchester United midfielder Juan Mata has said the team can’t blame “bad luck” for failing to beat West Ham United on Sunday.
Mata was part of the side unable to break the resistance of Slaven Bilic’s West Ham as they were held to a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.
Per BBC Sport, manager Jose Mourinho recently claimed United were “the unluckiest team in the Premier League”. Writing on his blog, however, Spain star Mata said the players could no longer look for excuses:
You feel helpless after these games when you think that you’ve played better than the opponent, that you’ve had chances to score and the goalkeeper has had a fantastic performance. But we can’t complain, we can’t just blame the bad luck. We know we must find the target more often to score more goals. We are doing what is more difficult: being able to create those chances, and now we have to take them. Otherwise, at this level you get penalised as we have seen lately.
After missing the chance to beat Arsenal last week, Mourinho suggested United had deserved more this season.
He told BBC Sport: “If we just focus on [draws against] Burnley, Stoke and Arsenal—nine points easily. If we had those six points more we are top four and close to the top of the league. We all know inside that in this moment we are the unlucky team in the Premier League.”
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