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Mourinho revisits Man Utd Cup shock: I could hammer my players, but...

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho denies he's ready to bomb out his Carabao Cup flops.

Mourinho questioned the attitude of his squad following the shock defeat at Bristol City in the Carabao Cup.

However, he denied that those men who let him down could find their Old Trafford futures now in jeopardy.

The Portuguese coach said: "No, I don't make decisions based on only one game or one feeling or one night, not at all.

"First of all, you always like to speak about the loser. Probably you should speak more about the winner, what I told after the match.

"They were lucky but they fought a lot to try to be lucky and it's one of the beautiful things that can happen in football when a team from a lower division kills the giant.

"Football has changed so much, lower division is more professional and that could happen even more.

"I could be critical with my players but they did enough to win. They lost when they were the only team people believed could win. So we move on and we move on quickly because we have another match."

When asked what the expectations were for the Red Devils, Mourinho added: "I don't know. You say, you are the ones, not me.

"Expectation is to go to every match and try to win, which is what we do. The matches we lost we fought until the last second.

"The matches we lost if I'm not wrong 2-1, 2-1, 1-0, so we really manage to fight in every match to try the best result and nothing more than that we can do, we can promise, we go to every match and do our best."

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