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Published 21:30 2 Jan 2017 GMT
Updated 21:31 2 Jan 2017 GMT

First, Mike Dean's decision to show Sofiane Feghouli a straight red after just 15 minutes made United's task easier. Many watching felt the Algerian's challenge on Phil Jones wasn't worthy of a dismissal.
Then, already leading through Juan Mata's goal, Zlatan Ibrahimovic made sure of the points when he tucked away a second - despite clearly being offside when the ball was played to him by Ander Herrera.
In a post-match interview, the United boss made clear that he wasn't too concerned that a couple of poor calls had worked in his favour.
"If you speak about the decisions, Manchester United are the champions of wrong decisions," Mourinho had said.
Afterwards, when it was put to him in a post-match press conference that the decisions had been kind for his team, Mourinho replied: "Which decisions? My decisions to play [goal scorer] Mata at half-time and Rashford [who made the assist for Mata's goal] later? Thank you very much."
When a journalist clarified that this was a reference to the officials' decisions, he added: "No, not at all. When I play at home I have in my office every details, at half-time I can watch, after the match I watch immediately, I know immediately the [disallowed] Zlatan goal against Middlesbrough is a goal, I know it is a penalty on Rashford minute 76, I know immediately.
"But when I play away I don't have access to that so I cannot comment on that decision, I cannot comment also on Kouyate tackle on Mkhitaryan, I cannot comment."
Gary Neville, who had been on co-commentary duty for Sky's coverage of the match, had suggested that the challenge from Kouyate on Mkhitaryan was more worthy of a sending off than the earlier challenge which led to Feghouli's red card.Explore more on these topics:
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