{"id":10804,"date":"2017-10-14T15:40:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/14\/liverpool-left-frustrated-again-by-david-de-gea-and-manchester-united\/"},"modified":"2017-10-14T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T13:40:06","slug":"liverpool-left-frustrated-again-by-david-de-gea-and-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=10804","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool left frustrated again by David de Gea and Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If nothing else, Liverpool should probably take it as a compliment that Manchester United would choose to approach the game this way. It was the second successive season this fixture has ended in a goalless draw and it didn\u2019t need an overly suspicious mind to deduce that Jos\u00e9 Mourinho had decided the priority was to avoid being beaten \u2013 and to hell with anyone who might question their tactics.Mourinho\u2019s team had averaged three goals a game from their previous seven Premier League fixtures but this was the first time they had faced any of the sides in the top 12 positions. Mourinho altered his tactics accordingly and the second half, in particular, was an exercise in defensive resilience directly beneath the Kop. Liverpool were unable to break them down and Mourinho, remember, has already made it clear what he thinks about the people who might question his methods. For the story of this game, refer to his quote after last season\u2019s Europa League final: \u201cThere are lots of poets in football, but poets don\u2019t win many titles.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2017\/oct\/14\/liverpool-manchester-united-premier-league-match-report\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool left frustrated again by David de Gea and Manchester United<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If nothing else, Liverpool should probably take it as a compliment that Manchester United would choose to approach the game this way. It was the second successive season this fixture has ended in a goalless draw and it didn\u2019t need an overly suspicious mind to deduce that Jos\u00e9 Mourinho had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}