Mourinho has special words for Solskjaer and Manchester United

Jose Mourinho TEAMtalk

Jose Mourinho has hailed Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Manchester United after their brilliant 3-1 Champions League win over Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday night.

Solskjaer has lost just one of 17 matches since taking over and managed to render that 2-0 loss to Paris St Germain meaningless by overseeing an extraordinary last-16 second leg win in France.

Marcus Rashford’s last-gasp spot-kick sealed a 3-1 win that saw United make history and progress to the quarter-finals on away goals after the tie ended 3-3 on aggregate.

And now Solskjaer looks nailed on to succeed Mourinho on a permanent basis.

Asked to name the week’s Champions League stand-out performers, Mourinho said

action on RT, Mourinho explained: “In terms of players I was immediately thinking about [Dusan] Tadic because I think he was a key player in that amazing match.

“But then after United’s victory, and putting together the two matchdays, Tuesday, Wednesday, and also because normally when things go wrong, everybody goes in the direction of the guilty manager, let’s say that.

“I think independent of the performances, Ajax and Manchester United results are phenomenal results, and if the responsibility in the bad days is for the managers, the responsibility of the good days is then also for the managers.

“So for me, Ten Hag from Ajax and Solskjaer from Manchester United. Incredible results, so credit to them. I would say in relation to Ajax by the tactical perspective and also by the mental aspect of their game. For Manchester United I would say the mental side of it, the self-belief, so for me very special days for these two men.”

On United’s performance and gameplan at the Parc des Princes, he added: “You can go in the pragmatic way and say football is not about ‘ifs’, it’s about results.

“Manchester United had four shots during 95 minutes, and in four shots scored three goals, and PSG had almost 70 percent of ball possession, had more than 10 shots, and they scored only one. That’s the pragmatic way of looking at football, Manchester United scores three, and they deserve to go through.”