Former Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho says that he once had the club in a position where they would not have scored against his Chelsea team for 900 minutes!

Mourinho recalls the last time that United and Chelsea met during the opening game of a Premier League season, as they will at the start of the 2019-2020 season.

The Blues beat United 1-0 during Mourinho's first competitive game in charge in 2004, when they went on to win the title.

He said to Coaches' Voice of that game: "It was important to win against a direct rival.

"In the context of 38 matches you cannot lose many points, especially at home against direct rivals if you want to win the title.

"I thought it was very important because there was not a contradiction between our words to the players, our ambitions, and then the result of the match.

"If you say 'this season is to be champions' and then the first match you lose 3-0 at home to a direct rival, you give one step back.

"So it was one step forward, there was a big relation between that match and what we tried to give to the team in pre-season which was mental strength, being compact, tactical discipline and then be really ambitious on that approach that sometimes I call the 'all in approach'.

"You have to put everything in that game, in every minute of the game, every second of the game, it's all in.

"It's your qualities, your physical power, it's your aggression, it's your emotional control, you have to put everything in.

"That game was one of those matches where we could feel the 'all in'.

"It's one of those matches where I felt the game is 90 minutes, but it could be 900 minutes and they wouldn't score. We would always win the match."