Jose Mourinho was humiliated on his Premier League return to Stamford Bridge where his former side Chelsea routed Manchester United 4-0 on Sunday.
Having held out for 90 minutes at Anfield last Monday, United conceded the quickest goal in the Premier League this season to Pedro after 30 seconds and were then ripped apart as Gary Cahill (21), Eden Hazard (62) and N’Golo Kante (70) completed the scoring.
Most of the goals stemmed from poor defending as Chelsea found ever more ingenious ways to inflict pain on Mourinho.
Marcus Alonso began the unravelling with a defence-splitting pass that found Pedro, while Cahill could not believe his luck when the ball fell to him in the area after Chris Smalling failed to clear a corner.
Two up at half time, when United replaced Marouane Fellaini with Juan Mata, Chelsea sat back and waited to hit United on the break with Hazard adding a third after a clever one-two and then Kante driving into the area unopposed to score his first goal for the club.
“It started badly after a few seconds. We are close to the 1-1 and after another defensive mistake and it is 2-1.” Mourinho, who recorded his highest Premier League defeat ever, told Sky Sports.
“You come with a strategy, you cannot concede a goal in the way we did. We were coming to have an offensive approach, we wanted to create chances, we showed that after the 1-0.
“The second and the third were counter-attack goals. If we score a goal like we almost did for the 2-1 the game would be different.”
His opposite number, Antonio Conte, said: “It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.
“It was not a good situation when Chelsea conceded in every game, we change and now we are playing good football.
“We scored the early goal but we continued to play good football, intensity and possession create many chances.
“Today we didn’t concede which was important. It was a type of win that increases the confidence.
“We wanted to show our ambition and give the satisfaction to our fans and show last season was very bad.”
