A 1-1 draw to bottom-of-the-table Stoke City may not be a great result for Manchester United but Jose Mourinho claims it was their best performance of the season.
Goals from Martial and Allen ensured that the two sides could not be separated, despite the visitors being on the back foot for large portions of the game.
This was the best performance for the whole season. It could have been 4-0 or 5-0 at half-time and then 6-0 or 7-0 at full-time but that is football.
This was the best performance by far. We had six, seven or eight great chances to score.
We want to be in control and to score and there is nothing more to say.
In the first minute their goalkeeper made an unbelievable save and he kept doing that until the end of the game.
You can say what you want but that is my opinion.
It was a great performance and we wanted the three points with a great performance.
The fans’ reaction at the end says a lot about our performance.
Stoke were lucky but that is part of football.