Chris Smalling revealed Manchester United’s stunning fightback against Manchester City was inspired by Jose Mourinho imploring his players not to be “clowns” at their rivals’ title party.
United looked set to suffer the indignity of watching City celebrate winning the Premier League after racing into a two-goal half-time lead in the Manchester derby thanks to Vincent Kompany and Ilkay Gundogan.
But Mourinho’s men were completely transformed after their manager’s stirring half-time team-talk.
Paul Pogba scored twice in two minutes to shock City and Smalling volleyed the winner to cap a memorable 3-2 win.
“At half-time we were feeling sorry for ourselves, we wanted to go out there and play with pride and thought we fully deserved it in the end,” Smalling said.
“We knew ourselves as players it was a poor performance. The first half was terrible, we dropped off,…
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