United are making a habit of winning 4-0 – the perfect José Mourinho scoreline – and his second-season changes have given his side an authoritative air
Nobody is such a master of the humdrum four-goal win as José Mourinho. When his sides start winning 4-0 and 4-1 and others start rolling their eyes, it is a sure sign that things are going well. In claiming the league title in 2004-05, his Chelsea side scored four goals in a game seven times. The victory against Everton on Sunday was the third time already this season that Manchester United have won a league game 4-0.
It is the perfect Mourinho score, a brusque assertion of superiority rather than an artefact or a drama to be stored in the game’s collective memory for ever.
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