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Man Utd boss Mourinho on Everton draw: ‘Good performance, bad result’

Jose Mourinho felt his Manchester United side were again unlucky to come away without a win on Sunday.

The Red Devils were held to a 1-1 draw by Everton at Goodison Park after Leighton Baines' late penalty cancelled out Zlatan Ibrahimovic's brilliant opener.

That's now four of the past five games United have been the better of the two teams but failed to win, prompting the following response from Mourinho.

"It's another game with a very good performance in a very difficult place to play, in a very emotional stadium, against a team full of good players," he said after a third straight 1-1 draw in the league.

"So it was a very good performance but a bad result in relation to the performance.

"We were the best team by far but we didn't win. We had chances for 2-0, we had the ball against the post and then we lost a goal in the last few minutes.

"If you come to Goodison Park and you get a point in other circumstances I don't think it's a bad result because it's a difficult place to play, but we were the best team by far so the point is not the point that gives us what we deserve."

He added: "If you tell me that in any one of our draws, the opponent was closer to winning than us, I will tell you that is completely untrue.

"In every one of our draws, we were much more closer to winning than the opponent and we deserve to win these matches.

"I repeat, this season what matters is the results, it's not the quality of football."

The result sees United remain sixth on the Premier League table, where they sit 13 points behind leaders Chelsea.

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