José Mourinho has worn this haunted expression before – the one of utter bewilderment while battling back an inward sense of shock, with eyebrows raised in resignation at how powerless he had been rendered by his team’s abject deficiencies out on the grass of this arena. Retreat to the first half of last season and he had offered up the same facade to the world from a few yards further down the touchline as Crystal Palace, Liverpool, Southampton and Bournemouth came and ransacked what he had once considered a fortress.
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