There is hardly a manager that knows how to wind up his counterparts better than Jose Mourinho and the “Special One” is at it again after triggering Manchester United’s Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with his latest comments.
VAR has been a major part of the Premier League this season with the technology’s inconsistency ensuring that teams have enjoyed different strokes of luck with it.
Manchester United have been very fortunate with decisions being reviewed by the technology as they have had some questionable decisions go their way.
Mourinho was speaking ahead of his team’s next match and took some time to make it clear that his former side has been on the right end of some VAR decisions this season, claiming that they have been “lucky”.
That seems to have triggered Solskjaer who fired back claiming that his team have been unlucky too and that he should be the one complaining about VAR.
“How long have we got? I can sit here for hours now and try to talk about this,” Solskjaer said via ESPN. “It looks like there’s a narrative, it looks like people want to influence whoever’s making the decisions.
“I hear people talking about luck, that we’ve been lucky more than unlucky. If you look at the factual decisions — I don’t want to sound like a certain manager talking about facts — but if you’re offside you’re offside, that’s clear.
“Talking about lucky; the penalty we got against Tottenham in the last minute that was taken away from us, that might be two points for us. Talking about the red card that [Oriol] Romeu should have had against us when he got Mason Greenwood almost crippled, that should’ve been a red card. Maybe that would’ve helped us.
OK, Solskjaer is on one bringing up the disallowed penalty against us, it was a clear dive and Bruno Fernandes should have been booked.
Anyone with a pair of eyes can see the ridiculous decisions that have gone United’s way this season, especially since the restart and Mourinho was absolutely right to brand United lucky.
Others, I am sure, would use different words to describe what has gone on with VAR and United.
Regardless of any of that, it is clear that Mourinho has really got under Solskjaer skin proving he is still the king of the wind-up.
