JOSE MOURINHO remained straight faced whilst his Manchester United players jubilantly celebrated with the EFL Cup trophy.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic stole the show at Wembley in United’s 3-2 win, scoring twice, whilst Jesse Lingard also scored for the Red Devils.
But Southampton gave a good account of themselves, with Manolo Gabbiadini scoring twice after having what would have been the opening goal wrongly disallowed for offside.
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And the Special One believes Saints deserved to take his side to extra time and insists Zlatan Ibrahimovic won them the game.
Mourinho said: “I think honestly he [Ibrahimovic] won the game for us because he was outstanding.
“I can see a couple of performances, for example Pogba similar level, but he was outstanding in a match where our opponent was better than us for long periods of the game.
“A game where I think they [Southampton] deserved to go to extra time. They don’t deserve to lose over 90 minutes. He [Zlatan] made the difference and he gave us a cup.”
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"I’m a bit emotional yes. It’s not easy to win titles. It’s not easy to win titles so many times.
"It’s not easy to cope to that pressure that I put myself under with my career and, yes, [it] was a game that I was feeling the difficulty.
"I want to pay the homage they deserve, Southampton deserve, and the only thing I can say is we have the cup in our hands but probably we should be now playing extra time.
"[It] Is for them [not celebrating] is for them. [The cup] is for the fans. I take this because I won four times. I take this for me."
Proud Southampton boss Claude Puel said striker Gabbiadini scored three great goals, after his first goal being wrongly disallowed.
When talking about the disallowed goal, the Frenchman said: "Yeah it was all the game unlucky unlucky, because the first goal of Gabbiadini it was very well, it was a good goal, he scored three good goals this afternoon and all this.
"It was not possible to turn the good thing right. It’s a lot of disappointment of course, but proud for the quality on the pitch and we can do a fantastic game."
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