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Mourinho takes aim at Man City gamesmanship: They're smart

Sacked Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has had a pop at the gamesmanship of Carabao Cup winners Manchester City.

Calling Chelsea's Carabao Cup defeat to City, Mourinho pulled apart the victor's tactics.

He said on DAZN: "City is a team that knows everything, and when I say it knows everything, it knows how to exploit all the little things in games that only experienced teams with smart people, with many kilometers in their legs at this very high level, know how to control.

"You always go to City with situations like this, trying to get a yellow here or a yellow there in groups of players, three or four, around the referee trying to influence a decision.

"It is a team that plays football as well as it does, that this management of small details ends up being important."

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