{"id":16939,"date":"2017-11-27T01:59:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T00:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/27\/jose-mourinho-praises-romelu-lukaku-despite-flow-of-goals-drying-up\/"},"modified":"2017-11-27T01:59:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T00:59:11","slug":"jose-mourinho-praises-romelu-lukaku-despite-flow-of-goals-drying-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=16939","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Mourinho praises Romelu Lukaku despite flow of goals drying up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Manchester United manager says there is no pressure on the striker\u2022 Forward has scored for United in only one of his last 10 matchesJos\u00e9 Mourinho was at his most succinct. For the ninth time in 10 matches his \u00a375m striker had failed to find the net. \u201cHe didn\u2019t score,\u201d the Manchester United manager said. \u201cI don\u2019t care.\u201d The Portuguese can be a master of deception and diversionary tactics. Sometimes, however out of character it may appear, he is simply voicing an honest opinion.Because when Romelu Lukaku was averaging a goal a game, Mourinho\u2019s mantra was that it did not matter. When his biggest summer signing opened his league account against West Ham, his manager averred that there was \u201cno pressure from me\u201d. After Lukaku struck in the win over his former club Everton, Mourinho said: \u201cHe knows that for me there is no pressure for goalscoring.\u201d When flood has given way to drought, United\u2019s manager has displayed a consistency of argument. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2017\/nov\/27\/manchester-united-jose-mourinho-romelu-lukaku-brighton\" target=\"_blank\">Jos\u00e9 Mourinho praises Romelu Lukaku despite flow of goals drying up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Manchester United manager says there is no pressure on the striker\u2022 Forward has scored for United in only one of his last 10 matchesJos\u00e9 Mourinho was at his most succinct. For the ninth time in 10 matches his \u00a375m striker had failed to find the net. \u201cHe didn\u2019t score,\u201d [&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-16939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939","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=16939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}