Jose Mourinho is refusing to panic after watching his Manchester United side fall to their third straight defeat with a 3-1 loss to Watford on Sunday.
Despite Marcus Rashford’s second-half equaliser, United left Vicarage Road empty-handed after goals from substitute Juan Camilo Zuniga and Troy Deeney sealed all three points for the Hornets.
The loss capped off eight days for United that began with a 2-1 derby loss to Manchester City and also saw them beaten by Feyenoord in the Europa League on Thursday.
It is the first time Mourinho has lost three consecutive games in a season since February 2002, when he was Porto boss.
Mourinho is refusing to get carried away by the highs and lows of United’s season and says the only way his team will improve is through hard work on the training ground.
“I have this capacity of balance,” Mourinho told MUTV. “Balance is, for me, not running around the pitch when we were winning a couple of matches and nobody sees now me being too depressed.
“I’m sad. Obviously, I’m sad but, as I was telling the players, there is only one way.
“At 10:30 in the morning, we have a training session and we have to be there. They have to work, they have to show themselves with a certain kind of attitude towards negative moments.”
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