Manchester United defeated Brighton 1-0 in an uneven performance that Jose Mourinho criticized and accepted blame on his own decision making. 

“I wouldn’t be surprised if the pundits said we played with too many attackers," said Mourinho. But if they say that I would say they were right. Sometimes you play with too many and you lose control of the game,” he said.

“We had a few problems because Pogba and [Nemanja] Matic were isolated in the midfield. It is a good risk and against Newcastle it was good because [while] we were not very solid defensively we were strong in creating. But today our creation was poor. They were not successful one against one. Marcus did not have a happy match at all.”