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Bournemouth 1 Manchester United 2: Rashford's late winner lifts Mourinho's men

Two of the Premier League's candidates for the October Player of the Month award were on target but Marcus Rashford netted the winner.

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London, November 3: Marcus Rashford scored a stoppage-time winner as Manchester United came from behind to triumph 2-1 at Bournemouth in the Premier League on Saturday (November 3).

Rashford had already missed a golden opportunity on the rebound when Ashley Young's free-kick hit the crossbar, but he came up trumps for Jose Mourinho's men at the Vitality Stadium on Saturday.

Paul Pogba's left-wing cross was chested down by the England forward, who kept his composure to fire past Asmir Begovic and earn United their first away league win in three attempts.

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Anthony Martial earlier levelled for United, scoring for the fourth Premier League game in a row, as Bournemouth's fine start - Callum Wilson scoring an early opener - counted for nothing.

Jose Mourinho said Manchester United's continual slow starts are whitening his hair after the match. But victory at the start of a run that sees United also face away games against Juventus in the Champions League and rivals Manchester City in the Premier League boosted the Portuguese, who strongly criticised his team's first-half showing.

"It wasn't just the start, it was the first half," Mourinho said to BT Sport. "A tough time, I thought I was the luckiest manager in the Premier League. To be 1-1 in a half where it should be like five or 6-2 is really lucky, because we were really poor.

"Defensively we were awful. Absolutely awful. And not just my defenders, but the team. We didn't start pressing up or doing what we worked on during the week. I feel like people watching this game will not believe how hard we trained this week. The first half was a disaster."

Rashford missed a golden chance to put United ahead in the 64th minute, seeing his shot blocked by Nathan Ake after Ashley Young's free-kick bounced back off the crossbar.

But despite that miss by the England striker, whose first Premier League goal since September later redeemed him, Mourinho felt United delivered a much improved performance after the interval.

"The second half was exactly the opposite. We pressed higher, more intensity and intention. We created lots of chances, we deserved to score before the minute 90-something," Mourinho added.

"I started [at half-time] by saying it was impossible to play worse than we did so the second half will be better for sure. The team performed much better. I was happy with bringing Ander Herrera into the game.

"Normally the intention is to make attacking changes, but I felt the team needed a player like Herrera to give us that balance, win the ball faster and protect Ashley Young, so I was happy with that change and the team was much better and we created lots of chances.

"I can't believe we didn't score from the Young free-kick. The two points we lost against Chelsea in the last minute [two weeks ago], we got them today.

"I can't understand [the slow starts]. My assistants were saying this is the best warm-up of the season. The week was a very good week of work, so I can't believe how bad we started.

"I love the song 'attack, attack, attack', but when you lose the ball you have to have stability, and we did not have it against a good team. We were prepared for what Bournemouth have done in the season.

"We were ready for everything, I can't understand the mentality that brings me more white hair!"

Story first published: Sunday, November 4, 2018, 1:12 [IST]
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